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'Human rights activists' worry victims of Saddam will use war crimes tribunals for retribution.
KR/WSJ ^ | RAGHAVAN/Taranto

Posted on 12/11/2003 11:31:02 AM PST by BJungNan

Couple of interesting articles on this subject. First is the usually insightful work of Taranto.

Check out the lead paragraph of this Knight Ridder dispatch:

Human rights activists are worried that Iraqi war crimes tribunals--which could be approved as soon as Wednesday--will be a kangaroo court in which victims will seek retribution against their former persecutors.

These people are worried that victims of human rights abuses will bring the perpetrators to justice? If so, calling them "human rights activists" is downright Orwellian.

WSJ Opinion Journal

Other is the link to the actual story he comments on. Will these people against a Free Iraq never stop in their obsurdities?!


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cluelesspeaceniks; iraq; iraqijustice; saddam; warcrimes; warcrimestribunal
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1 posted on 12/11/2003 11:31:04 AM PST by BJungNan
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To: BJungNan
"These people are worried that victims of human rights abuses will bring the perpetrators to justice?"

After all they only killed your family and friends.
2 posted on 12/11/2003 11:41:02 AM PST by 20yearvet
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To: BJungNan
Human rights activists are worried that Iraqi war crimes tribunals--which could be approved as soon as Wednesday--will be a kangaroo court in which victims will seek retribution against their former persecutors.

The "Human rights activists" may seek to get the trials moved to a "more favorable" court for the persecutors...like The US Supreme Court...

3 posted on 12/11/2003 11:41:41 AM PST by Onelifetogive
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To: BJungNan
Human rights activists are worried that Iraqi war crimes tribunals--which could be approved as soon as Wednesday--will be a kangaroo court in which victims will seek retribution against their former persecutors.

Alright, who spilled the beans?

4 posted on 12/11/2003 11:46:27 AM PST by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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To: BJungNan
Don't be too surprised.

After all, Amnesty International and other organizations of that ilk constantly berate the US for its policies but ignore the regimes in China, Cuba and the rest of the world.
5 posted on 12/11/2003 11:50:08 AM PST by OpusatFR (Al Dean and Howard Gore, separated at birth.)
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To: BJungNan
Is this weird or what?

JUST Imagine... saddam's CRIMINAL partners/villians might get punished for killing all those MILLIONS of poor Iraqi citizens in those nasty torture chambers he called prisons ....

Who in their right mind would NOT want saddam's villians punished?

Oh... I see... "human rights" experts are afraid FOR the villians.... well, those "experts" don't have 2 working brain cells amongst the whole lot of them.

Geeezeeeeee.

6 posted on 12/11/2003 11:50:47 AM PST by Lion in Winter
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To: 20yearvet
'Human rights activists' worry victims of Saddam will use war crimes tribunals for retribution

Allow me to restate this:

The Iraqis mustn't use their own criminal courts when our nice new International Criminal Court is the only way to go. No protection against self-incrimination, multiple jeopardy, no right to confront witnesses, an assumption of guilt, no appeals...

Yeah, just lovely.

What a bunch of globo-whores.

7 posted on 12/11/2003 11:59:03 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: Lion in Winter
What the human rights activists are afraid of is they, themselves being prosecuted for there human shield crap. The Iraqi's didn't want them there in the first place remember? The funny thing is that some of them got abused themselves by Saddam and his cronies. Many of them got rocks thrown at them by the average Iraqi. Those spineless human activists are afraid of jail time in Iraq.
8 posted on 12/11/2003 12:14:54 PM PST by SirKnightT (Retribution.)
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To: BJungNan
And I worry that a catcher's mitt might be used to catch thrown baseballs.....
9 posted on 12/11/2003 12:16:42 PM PST by tracer
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To: BJungNan
I can't believe this. I wonder if these Human Rights groups ever worried this much about those who were victims of Saddam's brutallity. This just exposes the duplicity of these leftist organizations that disguise their political agandas behind the banners of Human and Civil rights.
10 posted on 12/11/2003 12:22:35 PM PST by cwb
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To: BJungNan
Well, I really, really hope they do just that!
11 posted on 12/11/2003 12:49:44 PM PST by NavyCaptain
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To: BJungNan
The "human rights activists" are worried that their behavior in the months leading up to the war will earn more than a few of them a firing squad.
12 posted on 12/11/2003 1:02:22 PM PST by thoughtomator (The U.N. is a terrorist organization)
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To: BJungNan
Funny!Where were these human rights clowns and hypocrites when saddam was in power torturing and murdering the Iraqi people??So what if the Iraqi people get retribution,they're entitled to it and besides,the outcome will be the same regardless of the emotion involved.
13 posted on 12/11/2003 1:52:18 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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Where were these human rights clowns and hypocrites when saddam was in power torturing and murdering the Iraqi people??

We know where they were. They were protesting the largest evildoer of all history, Bush. They said it, not me.

Really, you make exactly the right point. Had the protestor's wrath been directed at Saddam instead of at Bush, they might have gotten their way. Instead they are blinded by their political hatred and can not see they are working exactly against the stated goals.

14 posted on 12/11/2003 1:58:37 PM PST by BJungNan
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I would take a gun to the heads of all these evil bastards.. Thats what they did. Eye for an eye is good enough for these evil murderers...
15 posted on 12/11/2003 3:51:12 PM PST by futureceo31
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To: BJungNan
Last toll I heard for the number of Iraqis murdered by Saddamn and his regime was over 500,000. Where was the human rights crowd while that was going on?
16 posted on 12/11/2003 3:52:52 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: BJungNan
I hope they "worry" themselves until they rot in hell. It's none of their damned business.
17 posted on 12/11/2003 4:53:32 PM PST by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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To: BJungNan
BOy uS stUpID AmErIcAns SimPlY caN't dO anYThiNg RiGhT CAn wE?
18 posted on 12/11/2003 5:39:16 PM PST by Guillermo (It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
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To: SirKnightT
Ah, yes.... perhaps we on FR should start a JUSTICE COMMITTEE FOR IRAQIS .....

and make it our primary goal to see such so-called "peace advocates", cnn news-shills and "human rights experts" be brought to the Iraqi tribunal for crimes against the Iraqi people.

19 posted on 12/11/2003 6:10:56 PM PST by Lion in Winter
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Whuy, they were worried about clinton getting impeached and HORRIFIED at Milosevic trying to hold Yugoslavia together!

Slobo was a villian THEY could hate.... because clinton told them to!

20 posted on 12/11/2003 6:14:01 PM PST by Lion in Winter
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