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2005-10-05 Iraq

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Posted by Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World 2005-10-05 07:58|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...spent at least $US500 million (almost $657 million) preparing its case."
Bull crap.

Posted by Darrell 2005-10-05 08:35|| 2005-10-05 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 ROFL!

Yewbetcha.

Posted by .com 2005-10-05 08:35|| 2005-10-05 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't Ramsay Clark raise some moolah from his leftie buddies? What about George Galloway's Miriam Fund (or whatever it was called)? I'm sure the UN still has some of the oil-for-food cash lying around!

Oh, the inhumanity!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-10-05 08:36|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-10-05 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Beat me by seconds, Darrell...

It's pretty clear that Dulaimi & Co are the right people to represent a mass murderer such as Saddam, they're thieves of the same scale. Lol.

Posted by .com 2005-10-05 08:39|| 2005-10-05 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 He said his team had failed to raise the money from "rich Arabs, including those who had amassed fortunes in doing business with Iraq."

Sounds like they buy into that "strong horse" theory...

Posted by tu3031 2005-10-05 08:44|| 2005-10-05 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone must've used the same Swiss bank as Arafat. The old man is going to take it with him rather than let the family touch a cent of it. Such a warm and intimate family moment.

Posted by Javirt Thrusing6823 2005-10-05 08:49|| 2005-10-05 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Get him a first-year public defender for the trial. Screw 'em.

Posted by Doc8404 2005-10-05 10:18|| 2005-10-05 10:18|| Front Page Top

#8 500 MILLION!?!? LMAO

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2005-10-05 10:33|| 2005-10-05 10:33|| Front Page Top

#9 I thought Saddam's wife and the rest of the Baathists had it stashed in Syrian and French banks. She must have had a pre-nup.

Posted by Danielle 2005-10-05 11:34|| 2005-10-05 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Donations being accepted at 1-800-HANG-HIM-NOW

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-05 13:04|| 2005-10-05 13:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Please submit your hourly bill to our third-party auditor....

At $200.00 per hour, that comes to 2.5 million man hours. An average work year for a highly paid lawyer is roughly 2300 hours. Therefore, you could fully employ 1087 lawyers fulltime for a year at 460k (!) per year each.

You're fired.

Posted by Mark E 2005-10-05 13:26|| 2005-10-05 13:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Hadn't a hundred-plus lawyers from all over the world flocked to join Saddam Hussein's defence team? And I would imagine that such illustrious gentlemen (not likely to be many ladies in that horde) bill a great deal more than than the standard $200/hour. What a shame they'll see no payoff for an investment of so much time and effort.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-05 13:52|| 2005-10-05 13:52|| Front Page Top

#13 I'll simplify things for Sammy's loving family.

They only need to pay for a few yards of rope.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-10-05 14:07|| 2005-10-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

#14 And a body bag.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-10-05 14:09|| 2005-10-05 14:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Whya body bag? Saddam didn't provide body bags for the 500,000+ and still counting victims in his mass graves.

Posted by ed 2005-10-05 14:15|| 2005-10-05 14:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Wants his fee up front, a true lawyer.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-10-05 14:19|| 2005-10-05 14:19|| Front Page Top

#17 Reminds me of a great "joke"....

Lawyer standing by his client during the reading of the guilty criminal verdict...

Convict to lawyer- "What do we do now?"

Lawyer to convict- "We? I go back to my office; you go to jail."

Posted by Mark E 2005-10-05 15:13|| 2005-10-05 15:13|| Front Page Top

#18 the attorney should be horsewhipped for even trying that $500 Million figure out. Strip him and horsewhip him live on TV

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-05 15:41|| 2005-10-05 15:41|| Front Page Top

#19 Don't see why they're even thinking about blowing money on Saddy's defense, as his guilt simply can't be in doubt.

Plus, Johnny Cochran is no longer available.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-05 15:47|| 2005-10-05 15:47|| Front Page Top

#20 The "lawyer" and Saddamn are two of a kind. I suggest the honorable court give them both the same sentence - a long drop with a short rope tied around their necks. A perfect "TWOFER" (or more).

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-10-05 16:47|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-10-05 16:47|| Front Page Top

#21 You can definality get alot of billiable hours for $500 million. I guess the case against Saddam is too big!

Posted by Snons Phusing8635 2005-10-05 18:44|| 2005-10-05 18:44|| Front Page Top

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