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2003-12-17 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-17 00:02|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If Izzy had an army, it would throw down its weapons and scurry away to hide the very minute the 101st and 3ID looked at them closely. They saw what happened to Izzy's cousin.

So I guess he won't ever have an army!

Posted by Steve White 2003-12-17 12:13:20 AM|| 2003-12-17 12:13:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I love to be lectured on justice, by Baathist tyrants. How many of the Beast-of-Baghdad's victims received a fair trial?

Posted by Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2003-12-17 4:57:12 AM|| 2003-12-17 4:57:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like he's planning to run for office in Tikrit .....

Posted by rkb 2003-12-17 8:26:58 AM|| 2003-12-17 8:26:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ...or sounds like he is planning a run for the Democrat primary.

Posted by Les Nessman 2003-12-17 11:10:32 AM|| 2003-12-17 11:10:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I think part of the problem is a major misunderstanding. A trial implies an undertaking to determine the truth and so act on it.

Sometimes old familiar ideas do not work and you have to step outside the norm to set things to rights.

There is no conceivable way that Saddam can be found innocent of anything. In this case a the trial is really just an review of the reasons and justifications why the Iraqi people are going to hang this guy.

All the people crying about a "fair trial" either really do not understand what is going on or are trying to prevent the Iraqi people from ever being free.

Most of the noise coming from the latter, as without hatred and misery and evil about in the world these people have no justification for their existance.

Posted by Michael 2003-12-17 12:33:01 PM|| 2003-12-17 12:33:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Al-Majid defected with Saddam's sons-in-law Hussein and Saddam Kamil in 1995, but refused to return to Iraq in spite of a presidential pardon."

Guess he wasn't as dumb as the Kamil brothers. Or else he didn't have any family that could be used as a lever. Wonder what Saddam told the brothers he would do to their families if they didn't come back. Bear in mind that this was Sammy's OWN family...

Posted by mojo 2003-12-17 5:30:52 PM|| 2003-12-17 5:30:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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