New tribunal might be option for Saddam

AP | 12/14/03 | HAMZA HENDAWI

[sleeper-has-awakened]

I have a feeling that Saddam will wish he was not taken alive by the time the Iraqis get through with him.

[Loyalist]

Don't send Hussein to The Hague. That kangaroo court would acquit Hussein just to embarrass the Bush administration.

[zandtar]

The trials would be open to the public, human rights groups and news media, suggesting they could be televised. Their work is not expected to begin for months.

A shame. Too bad they couldn't employ some of the same tactics Saddam had used on him directly.

[nmh]

I can't begin to comprehend the evil this man has done to others and the emotional pain that has been inflicted to survivors. I pray that those who survived find a way to heal from this reign of terror.

[Cobra64]

I have a feeling that Saddam will wish he was not taken alive by the time the Iraqis get through with him.

I don't think so. The UN and the ACLU will step in and get him a parole.

[MissAmericanPie]

This is going to be very tricky. To be on the safe side, Saddam should face several trials. One in Iraq, and one Military tribunal in the USofA.

It would be a tragedy if for any under handed reason, pay off's, intimidation, he is set free in Iraq.

[Cobra64]

Send him to Gitmo.

If it were up to me, I'd give him an HCL bath followed by a chipper chaser.

[Snake65]

U.S. officials said they still haven't decided what to do with Saddam Hussein now that he's been captured

Look for this to be the big Dem talking point. No plan! No plan! No plan! Waaaaaa!

BTW, I'm sure the administration knows exactly what they're going to do with him. He'll stay in U.S. custody throughout an Iraqi trial, and then he'll be hung.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Yes, you are correct. We wouldn't be that foolish.

[TigersEye]

Don't miss this thread!

Terrorist Behind September 11 Strike was Trained by Saddam

[Fair Paul]

Take him on a victory tour throughout Iraq where he is on display in a cage, to humiliate him and to show the Iraqi people that he has indeed been captured. Then, very publicly announce that at a certain date and time he will be released to the Iraqi people on top of the platform where that statue of him once stood.

[Howlin]

Don't send Hussein to The Hague

Absolutely!

[Howlin]

The UN and the ACLU will step in and get him a parole.

Thank God -- and George W. Bush -- that neither of those two "organzations" have anything to do with this.

[Moose4]

I would love nothing more than to see him tried and convicted before an Iraqi war crimes court, and see him publicly hanged on the exact spot where we pulled down that massive statue in April. THAT, folks, would be true justice.

}:-)4

[Kevin Curry]

Saddam Hussein should be tried by the Iraqi people, in their courts, but only when their new government is sufficiently strong to carry it out competently.

[the invisib1e hand]

kofi's gonna want to be all over this...just imagine the howling that france and germany will do when they find that they can't host the 'trial.'

it's gonna be a liberal spinfest.

[BenLurkin]

But what if "The Innocence Project" is called in: The DNA evidence might be challenged. ;^)