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| Rice: World Not Helping With Saddam Trial |
| 2005-12-14 |
| The world has shirked its duty to help prosecute Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday. "The international community's effective boycott of Saddam's trial is only harming the Iraqi people, who are now working to secure the hope of justice and freedom that Saddam long denied them," Rice said. Preach it, sister! Rice, speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said other nations are starting to do more to help rebuild Iraq and are opening their checkbooks to do it. "As welcome as this broad support is, I am sad to say that the international community has barely done anything to help Iraq prosecute Saddam Hussein," she said. "All who express their devotion to human rights and the rule of law have a special obligation to help the Iraqis bring to justice one of the world's most murderous tyrants." Why, to do otherwise would be an act of hypocricy! Rice praised Britain and other countries that have contributed troops or cash to the Iraq effort, and she prodded some of Iraq's Arab neighbors and others to do more. "In just two days, when Iraqis make history by selecting the most democratic leaders in the entire [Arab] Middle East, they will do so with the moral and financial and diplomatic backing of an overwhelming majority of the world," Rice said. Gosh, is it election time already? How time does fly! |
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