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2005-05-29 Iraq-Jordan
Tariq Aziz pleads for his life
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Posted by Steve White 2005-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 DON’T CRY FOR ME MESOPOTAMIA
Posted by Fatima Peron 2005-05-29 03:32||   2005-05-29 03:32|| Front Page Top

#2 After WW11 the Nuremberg trials started within 6 months. What's becoming clear in Iraq is that although an illegal invasion was initiated on false intelligence, thanks mainly to Tel Aviv, there's not actually enough evidence to bring Saddam, Aziz etc to trial.
Posted by Grearong Elmurong9235 2005-05-29 03:51||   2005-05-29 03:51|| Front Page Top

#3 there's not actually enough evidence to bring Saddam, Aziz etc to trial. If 400,000 victims is not enough. Care to suggest a number that would constitute enough? One million? Two million?
Posted by phil_b 2005-05-29 04:01||   2005-05-29 04:01|| Front Page Top

#4 GE,
Clue 1): Just because you type something on a keyboard dosen't make it true.

Clue 2)Ya know GE, you might save some power and bandwidth if you just left your fingers in your pockets and STFU.

have an nice day in muzzy-wuzzy land.;)
Posted by AI™®© 2005-05-29 04:04||   2005-05-29 04:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Lol! That's, um, fascinating, GE. Are you even remotely connected to reality? Got any relatives on the outside? Just wondering whom we should call when you need changing. Given the post, a "download" is likely imminent. Think of it as a RB courtesy.
Posted by .com 2005-05-29 04:06||   2005-05-29 04:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Uh, GE, "...an illegal invasion..."--"illegal?" Under whose system of laws?
in what court?
Saddam Hussein was behind the first bombing of the WTC, was probably behind the bombing in OKC and had definite links with Al Queda and OBL going back to the early '90s, in addition to invading Kuwait, gassing, torturing and murdering his own people, making war against Iran for 8 years and losing Gulf War I to the Allies, for which he signed a surrender.
Then, he violated 16 (or was it 17?) U.N. resolutions about disarming, which is the basis of your "false intelligence" claim.
There's plenty of evidence to bring Saddam and his henchmen to trial and to a guilty verdict, the only problem being whom to choose to testify from among the tens of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones to the régime!
Grow up and get over all the Leftist lies you're hearing from Old Media in the UK (I'm guessing you're British.)
And yes, Israel's fight is our fight: we face the same Islamist enemy.
Posted by Jennie Taliaferro">Jennie Taliaferro  2005-05-29 05:09|| http://www.greatestjeneration.com]">[http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2005-05-29 05:09|| Front Page Top

#7 These nuts love throwing magic words around talismanically.

Dear trolls: repeating "illegal" neither makes it so, nor undoes the overthrow of your Baathist heroes.
Posted by someone 2005-05-29 06:25||   2005-05-29 06:25|| Front Page Top

#8 claiming that he was only following orders and would have been killed if he disagreed

Tariq's son isn't helping him any.
If his boy was a better student of history he would know that many a Nazi was propelled to the hangmans noose by that easy lie.
Posted by JerseyMike 2005-05-29 06:48||   2005-05-29 06:48|| Front Page Top

#9 The Observer revealed how prisoners are kept mostly in solitary confinement in tiny cells with no natural daylight.

what a bunch of wankers. The average american worker does that for 8+ hours a day - voluntarily.

babies
Posted by 2b 2005-05-29 07:07||   2005-05-29 07:07|| Front Page Top

#10 'I have not done anything contrary to law and human behaviour.'

Unfortunately, he's correct here. It was legal under Iraqi law at the time, and it is very human behavior. Of course, so was the Final Solution.
Posted by xbalanke 2005-05-29 08:04||   2005-05-29 08:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Aziz ought to be the very first on the gallows. His westernized, rational appearance was a key factor in keeping Saddam in power. As someone said of one of the Nazis, he is a man "whose honor in dishonor rooted stood."

As for his current living arrnagements, cry me a river. While ordinary Iraqis lived in squalor, Aziz lived in palace earned by doing his master's bidding.
Posted by Matt 2005-05-29 10:35||   2005-05-29 10:35|| Front Page Top

#12 

My Friends, There is no reason to doubt the word of GE, Alan be with him. Further more, my dear friend Tarky is completely innocent. All he did was oversee the production rates of the baby milk factories and baby duck incubaters."
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-05-29 10:52||   2005-05-29 10:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Aziz scribbled these notes on pages from his lawyer's diary who was with him when he was questioned recently by the CIA and US politicians.

I don't get it.How can a prisoner like Aziz communicate with the "outside" through his lawyers with CIA and US politicians present?
Posted by SwissTex 2005-05-29 11:53||   2005-05-29 11:53|| Front Page Top

#14 G.E. - the dim bulb
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-05-29 11:56||   2005-05-29 11:56|| Front Page Top

#15 "He was only following orders."

Yeah, right.

Tariqy-baby should be shown as much mercy as his old boss showed the people of Iraq. And soon, too.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-05-29 12:04|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]  2005-05-29 12:04|| Front Page Top

#16 Put him in a cell with Saddam and tell both that nobody will come to check on them for 24 hours.
Posted by True German Ally 2005-05-29 13:33||   2005-05-29 13:33|| Front Page Top

#17 LOL, TGA.

I like your thinking. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-05-29 15:31|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]  2005-05-29 15:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Of course the Red Cross, Amnesty International and Seymour Hersh would protest...
Posted by True German Ally 2005-05-29 15:34||   2005-05-29 15:34|| Front Page Top

#19 One of the many world-views I have had ripped from me since the beginning of this war is any respect for (a) the UN, (b) Amnesty International, (c) MSM, (d) the BBC and (e) the Red Thingy.

I care not a jot about those 'institutions'.

As for Aziz, he's been alive a lot longer than the poor sods he and his overlord killed without a moments thought. Bastard - die already.
Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-05-29 16:01||   2005-05-29 16:01|| Front Page Top

#20 #18 TGA - No problem.

Put them in there too. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-05-29 19:27|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]  2005-05-29 19:27|| Front Page Top

#21 Why should the Red Cross, et al, complain about TGA's suggested bunking arrangement? These are, after all, comrades in arms, fellow servants of the same government, colleagues of many, many years. It is only right that they be given some private time to commiserate and bolster one another's emotional strength at such a trying time in their lives.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-29 22:11||   2005-05-29 22:11|| Front Page Top

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