30 Days and Counting
The appeals court has now ruled that Saddam Hussein must pay for his crimes within 30 days. It will be interesting to see what actually happens. Did Saddam get a fair trial? Well, I would not say he did, taken what I saw about the trial on TV. It was a complete circus and there was nothing I saw that resembled law in any way shape or form.
I guess the question really is, should Saddam even have gotten a fair trial? How could he, in the country that he terrorized for 20 years. No one seemed to be smart enough to get him to the Hague where some semblance of a REAL trial could take place and where prosecutors and witnesses and judges did not have to fear for their very lives or the lives of their families. The only way to dispatch an overthrown long lived despot like Saddam is how the Rumanians quickly dispatched Nicolae Ceausescu, the last despotic leader of that country - by almost immediate military tribunal and instant death by firing squad. None of this protracted sham of a pretend trial where evidence is presented to show how bad the person was. Everyone already knows it....the thousands he mutilated, the tens of thousands he murdered, the hundreds raped by his sons and henchmen with his permission.
Do I feel bad that Saddam is going to swing in the next 30 days. No, not at all, it is about time, and should have happened years ago.
I guess the question really is, should Saddam even have gotten a fair trial? How could he, in the country that he terrorized for 20 years. No one seemed to be smart enough to get him to the Hague where some semblance of a REAL trial could take place and where prosecutors and witnesses and judges did not have to fear for their very lives or the lives of their families. The only way to dispatch an overthrown long lived despot like Saddam is how the Rumanians quickly dispatched Nicolae Ceausescu, the last despotic leader of that country - by almost immediate military tribunal and instant death by firing squad. None of this protracted sham of a pretend trial where evidence is presented to show how bad the person was. Everyone already knows it....the thousands he mutilated, the tens of thousands he murdered, the hundreds raped by his sons and henchmen with his permission.
Do I feel bad that Saddam is going to swing in the next 30 days. No, not at all, it is about time, and should have happened years ago.
