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2004-07-01 Iraq-Jordan
Defiant Saddam Rejects War Crimes Charges
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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-07-01 8:43:01 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Milosevic: The Sequel. Coming this summer to a court near you.
Posted by BH 2004-07-01 9:53:16 AM||   2004-07-01 9:53:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 A defiant Saddam Hussein rejected charges of war crimes and genocide against him in a court appearance Thursday, telling a judge "this is all theater, the real criminal is Bush," according to a reporter in an official media pool.


If he keeps this up, he may just lock up Kerry's VP spot.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-07-01 10:14:11 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-07-01 10:14:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I hear he's getting a prime-time speaking slot for the Dem convention...
Posted by Frank G  2004-07-01 10:29:10 AM||   2004-07-01 10:29:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 He grew up dirt poor in Tikrit and his father beat him. It's Bushitlers fault along with the increase in homeless and the lack of subsidized cruises for the pali people.
Posted by Juneifer 2004-07-01 11:18:02 AM||   2004-07-01 11:18:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If the genocide don't fit, you must acquit.
Posted by Chris W.  2004-07-01 12:21:41 PM||   2004-07-01 12:21:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 This guy looks like a couple of my college professors, one of which was a Basilian priest. Who got the high honor of grooming him for his court appearance, do you suppose?

I guess I don't object to the grooming. Except... this style clearly shows him more Westernized than the way he normally looked when he was head thug. Calculated to inspire more sympathy in the West, because he looks more like us? Do we really have an obligation to spiff up a truly evil man for his court hearing?
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2004-07-01 2:18:39 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2004-07-01 2:18:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I think it's perfectly obvious that Saddam was only hours away from allowing full inspections but that stupid chimp cowboy Bush went ahead and unilaterally invaded without permission from the NYT editorial board...
Posted by Seafarious  2004-07-01 2:29:12 PM||   2004-07-01 2:29:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 for the Oil, Em!
Posted by Frank G  2004-07-01 2:32:06 PM||   2004-07-01 2:32:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Calculated to inspire more sympathy in the West, because he looks more like us?

Well, he certainly looks older, and as such, not quite a good candidate for capital punishment. Now if he looked like the original well-shaved Saddam, it would probably be pretty easy to electrocute the guy without batting an eye....
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-01 2:48:30 PM||   2004-07-01 2:48:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I think this'll be far from a mockery of the law, but I rather suspect the verdict's a foregone conclusion. They'll go through the motions, but I don't think it's possible to find him anything other than guilty. I'm looking forward to the day he's sentenced.
Posted by The Doctor 2004-07-01 3:09:38 PM||   2004-07-01 3:09:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Let him rant and rave. It only weakens the LLL case about Saddam being a stable and lovable tyrant. The part about Kuwait turning Iraqi women into whores, Priceless! A couple more ousbursts and a tantrum or two and EVERYONE will agree that deposing this guy was the right thing to do. Kind of like voting for Dean after 'the scream' you still like the guy but maybe he is not quite mentally there. Maybe they can have Baghdad Bob come in and give some expert testimony? That would truely complete the picture!
Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)  2004-07-01 3:27:39 PM||   2004-07-01 3:27:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 For anyone who is interested, here is the full text word for word transcript of Uncle Saddam's hearing. He is not so "beaten" as Dan Blather and Comrade Jennings would lead the world to believe. I'll try printing the url as well as the link button, which rarely works for moi because it simply "disappears" the link, but I'll give it a shot again:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,124433,00.html
AND
Posted by rex 2004-07-01 4:15:13 PM||   2004-07-01 4:15:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Al Gore's on trial in Iraq?
Posted by tu3031 2004-07-01 7:26:11 PM||   2004-07-01 7:26:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 He's just been hired in NYC!
Posted by Dragon Fly  2004-07-01 8:07:47 PM||   2004-07-01 8:07:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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