Dean Supporters Cheer Remark Calling for Fair Trial of Osama bin Laden

Various Dean Websites | December 26, 2003 | nwrep

[jackbill]

If Dean gets the RAT nomination we are about to have definitive proof of just how many Americans are mentally ill.

Just count the votes.

[Miss Marple]

You know, there is a lesson for all of us in reading these posts.

The lesson is that there are a fairly large number of mentally disturbed people among us. They work with us, their children go to school with ours, and they also have the vote.

I don't think anything short of deprogramming will get them to change their world view.

[Miss Marple]

LOL! You and I drew the same conclusion!!!

[krb]

I really don't see what the problem with this is. Of course OBL deserves a fair trial. Why are you so worried about that? Do you not think that we have enough evidence to convict and string up the guy?

[TUX]

Perfect word for Bin, Deano, and company cuckoo.

[F16Fighter]

"If Dean gets the RAT nomination we are about to have definitive proof of just how many Americans are mentally ill."

Well, it was at least 50% of the population in the last Presidental election.

With openly Democratic socialist candidates like Dean and Kucinich, the evidence suggests we're heading for Civil War II within 25 years in any case...

[r9etb]

Of course OBL deserves a fair trial. Why are you so worried about that? Do you not think that we have enough evidence to convict and string up the guy?

You're correct.

And, of course, Dean's blatherings are just cheap shots designed to slam Bush and appeal to his base. Dean knows there's very little chance that OBL's JDAM-splattered body will ever be found, and thus little chance that he'll have to eat his words (for once).

[Salo]

This is why Howard Dean will only carry Mass and DC in the 2004 election. The only thing that could be better was that H. Clinton was his veep candidate.

[wimpycat]

I don't think he deserves any trial at all, at least not in the civilian court system. Trials are for criminals. Osama is not a "suspect", he's a military objective, and therefore he and his followers and supporters are "the enemy".

The only trial he deserves (assuming he's ever captured alive, which I highly doubt will happen) would be a military tribunal, of the sort the Japanese officers & leadership were subjected to after WWII.

The whole "problem" with Dean and this whole trial business is not so much that he's "not convinced" of Osama's guilt, but that he's thinking of him as a criminal suspect, and that he should be subject to our judicial system. It doesn't matter if we've got rock solid evidence that would convict him in a U.S. court. The whole point is that this is not, and never should have been, a criminal matter and should not be thought of or referred to in criminal terms. This is a military matter.

[Az Joe]

I like how they think giving Osama a fair trial will cause the "reasonable" terrorists to say to themselves:

"Oh the U.S. gave him a fair trial, gee, we have had them all wrong, let's stop bombing them".

LOL!

[sgtbono2002]

Dean looks crazier every day , Lets put Bin Laden on trial in Vermont and let them pay the expense of the trial. We know the world court is a joke they have been trying to convict Milosovic for 3 years now in a Kangaroo court and cant get the job done. As for Deans supporters they just hate Bush , they would support Beelzebub if he was running against Bush.

[Az Joe]

I proudly added to their threads by announcing that he be hung immediately after a summary military trial in the field.

[sgtbono2002]

Dean and his supporters crazy as loons

[NutCrackerBoy]

I really don't see what the problem with this is. Of course OBL deserves a fair trial. Why are you so worried about that? Do you not think that we have enough evidence to convict and string up the guy?

I don't know if this addresses your point, but I thought I would chime in.

When someone is charged with an ordinary crime, our system has a definitive process. Acts of war and mass murder may call for a different protocol. Ultimately of course, the trial must be fair. But there is a legitimate purpose to a thing called a "show trial" - from which following the exacting requirements such as presumption of innocence would seriously detract.

See Try Saddam? Justice in war. (William F. Buckley Jr.)

[Mo1]

Speaking to a newspaper in New Hampshire today, Howard Dean came down strongly on the side of Osama, and insisted on a fair trial for him. He claimed to have not been convinced of Osama's guilt

Is this for real???

[SoCalPol]

HOWARD DEAN IN YOUR GUT YOU KNOW HE'S NUTS

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" I really don't see what the problem with this is. "

It's not the trial part of Dr Deanmento's statement that has caused the furor. It's Dean's statement that we shouldn't prejudge Osama's guilt or innocent before he has a chance to make his case in the courtroom.And he doesn't necessarily agree that the death penalty should apply-that should be left to a jury. I guess the mad doctor has forgotten the video where Osama laughingly confesses to 9/11. Since Hitler did not have a trial and due process,I guess Dean must be leery to pass judgement on his guilt, also.

[OldFriend]

Now we now why it's referred to as the crazy wing of the democrat party.

[conservativecajun]

I think buckshot to the chest would be fair. Our Constitution applies to CITIZENS. Last I checked, bin Laden wasn't an American.

What idiots.