Saddam says: Good morning, I have some questions ("Chemical Ali" Scared, Shaking)

Reuters ^ | 6/30/04 | Michael Georgy

[buwaya]

Thats why its a good thing he is in the hands of the Iraqis.
Outside US jurisdiction.

[dozer7]

"I've never heard anything about a fatal disease. Unless you're counting the gallows, guillotine or firing squads as diseases."

You left out excedrin headache number .357

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Saddam needs to seek a change of venue.***

You mean somewhere under the US 9th Circuit court jurisdiction?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Of course.

[Ichneumon]

You mean somewhere under the US 9th Circuit court jurisdiction?

[Mr. K]

Does anyone know if there was any video of today's hearing?

[Wolfstar]

He might try, I suppose. What's he got to lose? But I doubt that even the 9th Circuit is dotty enough to try to assert appellate jurisdiction over Iraqi courts, and if they are they'll get slapped down by the Supremes, probably 9-0.

What on earth makes you think this? Based on this week's Supreme Court rulings, any enemy combatant in U.S. custody can now have access to U.S. courts.

[SMARTY]

Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for his role in poison gas attacks, including one that killed about 5,000 Iraqi Kurds

Ha!! Start off by handing that guy over to the Kurds, lock stock and anus....

Then the rest will know the Iraqi gov't. means business.

[ExSoldier]

Robin williams was entertaining the troops (Liberal but God Bless him for that) and he had a great schtick about how when he was first nabbed, Saddam came out of the hole shrieking: Johnny Cochran! Johnny Cochran!

[Veto!]

Sounds too much like Home Depot.

Good thought. Many voters, once married to Home Despots, would relate.

[MikefromOhio]

Ha Ha

Serves ya right you bastard...

[evad]

Most opinions are, I believe, emotional responses, and not always based in logic.

For sure..
a logic free zone.

[ScottFromSpokane]

What on earth makes you think this?

A) Saddam is not is US custody.

B) Iraq is not US territory.

C) The jurisdiction of a Circuit Court of Appeals is geographic. A lawyer can't just appeal to whichever circuit he feels like. The 9th Circuit doesn't even have appealate jurisdiction over Iowa, let alone Iraq.

[ScottFromSpokane]

I'm sorry, you sem to be right. I didn't realize the full extent of the Court's idiocy. I'm sure I heard somehwere that the basis of the Gitmo ruling was that Gitmo was under effective US sovereignty, but now I'm just reading this piece by Robert Alt which says that not only can Saddam appeal to US courts, but he can go district-shopping

[stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims]

"Saddam said good morning and asked if he could ask some questions"

The Questions by Saddam:

1. Is Kerry President yet?

2. Why aren`t Kerrys French blood brothers coming to rescue me? Don`t tell me they`ve surrendered again

3. Is Al Qaida getting their soulmates the Democrats to protest Bush enough?

[ragnarocker]

Wasn't it Goebbels who killed his kids?

[Riley]

Maybe Goebbels, the guy from Berlin.

Correct. He was the Propaganda Minister- Hitler's Michael Moore

He would have been Reichsfuerer if Hitler hadn't come along.

Heinrich Himmler *was* the Reichsfuhrer, and commanded the SS. Hitler was just 'Fuehrer'.

Himmler was assasinated by partisans.

You're thinking of Reinhard Heydrich, every bit the poisonous little cuss that Hitler and Himmler were. He was assassinated by Czech Partisans and British operatives, IIRC. The town of Lidice was obliterated along with its population in reprisal.
Himmler, after ineptly attempting to command the Waffen SS himself, was captured by the British Army. He had a Cyanide capsule secreted on his person, which he used. I seem to remember seeing a post-mortem photograph of him, he was incongrously dressed in sterile British battledress. Looked kind of odd.

/History Geek Mode

[Wolfstar]

I'm sorry also, Scott. Didn't mean to sound snippy in my first response to you. Was on my way to a meeting and didn't self-edit. But the sweep of yesterday's Supreme Court ruling is genuinely frightening. I don't have a complaint about their rulings that American citizens can't be held indefinitely without benefit of legal counsel.

But this business of non-citizen enemy combatants being allowed access to U.S. courts turns hundreds of years of case law and common law on its head.

It also has the potential to stick us taxpayers with the cost, because defendants who can't afford a lawyer get provided one at taxpayers' expense in our system. That really infuriates me, because I'm being asked to pay for the defense of someone who would kill me in a heartbeat if given the chance.

Once again our broadcast media has completely blown any claim to being responsible. They were in such a hurry to tell the American public that the decisions were a big defeat for President Bush. But they couldn't spare much, if any, time informing the public that they — the public — will now have to foot the bill for lawyers for our enemies. If the public really understood that ruling, I have to hope there would be a huge outcry and backlash.

[swampfox98]

Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for his role in poison gas attacks, including one that killed about 5,000 Iraqi Kurds in Halabja in 1988, appeared especially rattled. "He looked very scared. He was shaking," said Chalabi.

The ghosts of those he murdered have him rattled. He needs the lawyers that OJ had so they can blame it on the police. And he needs a prosecuting attorney like Marcia Clark who thought she knew how to explain DNA to a jury of idiots.

[JudgemAll]

Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for his role in poison gas attacks, including one that killed about 5,000 Iraqi Kurds in Halabja in 1988, appeared especially rattled.

"He looked very scared. He was shaking," said Chalabi.

Ah, squirming magots. Oh, they can act brave when they pry money and welfare from people and kill for sports, but all in all, begging cowardly welfare imploring threatening mother fcrs all of them.