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2004-05-13 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-13 10:55:10 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah - Saddahm is worried about torture of Iraqis by Brittish and American troops.

But of course the suit was filed by a FRENCH lawyer. Nothing else need be said.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-13 11:01:09 AM|| 2004-05-13 11:01:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Mr Verges, who says he has been asked to act for former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein."

Mr Verges: I come before this august body as representative of the cursed, the wicked and the damned, ...

Posted by Sam 2004-05-13 11:06:31 AM|| 2004-05-13 11:06:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hope he enters all those faked photos as evidence.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-05-13 11:18:36 AM|| 2004-05-13 11:18:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sometimes, I think the world has gone crazy! There is no other explanation for something like this!

Posted by Anonymous4617 2004-05-13 11:30:12 AM|| 2004-05-13 11:30:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 A4617 - The lawyer is French. He can only file against Britain because we won't recognize the Hague court until the appeasement majority in this country elects Lurch to be president in November.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-13 11:58:15 AM|| 2004-05-13 11:58:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 BigEd,

In fairness to the Frogs, even THEY consider Verges to be lower than pond scum.

We WANT this guy defending Saddam, his tactic is to attack the court rather than to defend his client. That will fly like a lead pig in Iraq.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2004-05-13 12:49:38 PM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2004-05-13 12:49:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL!!!

Funniest thing I've read in days. French lawyer representing Saddam accusing Britain of war crimes... Sometimes real life does satire best.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-05-13 12:51:03 PM|| 2004-05-13 12:51:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 What's being done here is less important than who's doing it. Verges has made a name defending the world's worst vipers. I think his view is not so much that even monsters deserve a competent defence, but that the enemies of his enemy (humanity) are his friends.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-05-13 1:19:41 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-05-13 1:19:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Most French consideer Verges as lowest of the lowest. And he is not interested in his clients but in how he can use them to harm Western countries. There was a Moroccan gardener who was accused of murdering his employer, any lawyer would have demolished the accusation with ease since proofs were shaky at best but he spent the trial accusing French of racism. His client spent many years in prison thanks to him.

He has also defended Klaus Barbie and Bourgarel (a communist who tortured French soldiers captured by the Vietminh)

Posted by JFM 2004-05-13 2:23:24 PM|| 2004-05-13 2:23:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 That broomstick must really hurt...

Posted by True German Ally 2004-05-13 3:15:58 PM|| 2004-05-13 3:15:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 God is an iron.

Sammy worrying about brutalized and tortured Iraqis is the height of irony.

Posted by mojo 2004-05-13 5:46:58 PM|| 2004-05-13 5:46:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#12

Saddam files war crimes suit

Against himself?

About time.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-13 6:02:45 PM|| 2004-05-13 6:02:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Saddahm, dude, what color panties you wearing on your head these days?

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-13 6:57:23 PM|| 2004-05-13 6:57:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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