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2006-12-04 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2006-12-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Notice the nice "conclusions before evidence" approach of HRW? Typical. They don't have the written judgment, but they're ruling on the trial's quality.

Every one of their objections is either based on inacurrate or incomplete info, or is disingenuous, applying standards or approaches they know are not relevant in a civil (inquisitorial) trial system.

The trial was not complex; advance notice is not as important in an inquisitorial system because the panel can take the manner of introduction into account - not to mention the fact that the defense had literally months and months to challenge or interpret the evidence due to delays; any fair-minded observer of the process, day in and day out, knows the defense had ample opportunity to do anything it wanted.

The court has problems, but one can safely disregard HRW's perspective.

Posted by Verlaine 2006-12-04 00:43|| 2006-12-04 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 By lodging appealsin the proper manner, Mr. Hussein and his lawyers implicitely accept the court's right to impose judgement, thus accepting the legitimacy of the entire endeavor.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-04 08:19|| 2006-12-04 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn the order, the troop should'a just tossed the grenades down the hole. Probably would have saved a lot of people killed by his loyalists since and sent their old command structure into an early turf war making their identification that much easier for clean up.

Posted by Procopius2K 2006-12-04 09:41|| 2006-12-04 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 It's good to see that he cares about continuing to live. Too bad he couldn't have cared about others continuing to live.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-04 19:11|| 2006-12-04 19:11|| Front Page Top

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