NY Times: Saddam Trial Should Wait Until After Elections (LOL!)

The New York Times ^ | July 1, 2004 | NYT Editorial Board

[jriemer]

Did the NYT make a similar stink in 1989 when we invaded Panama, captured their dictator, brought him to the US for trial and incarceration? No. It wasn't an election year.

[Just mythoughts]

lol When has the "LAW" ever applied to bjclinton?

[Dems_R_Losers]

Bttt

[JulieRNR21]

This is a joke.......of course the lying Moore propaganda movie & all the Bush hating books, including Checkpoint with two characters who talk about assassinating him......are perfectly acceptable to the NYT & the other Bush hating media!

[ICX]

Name one, just one ally of Saddam.

[Legion04]

Trial in Sept, verdict on Sept 11th.

[SpinyNorman]

I seem to recall yesterday sovereignity being handed back to Iraq. Did I miss something? Was it handed back to Iraq and the NY times? they should keep their big noses out of this and let Iraq run their own country.

Precisely. Saying that we, or in this case, the NYTimes, can dictate to the judicial system of a once again sovereign country simply feeds the myth that we are still in control, and the handover was, as Alcee Hastings put it, "a myth."

They have no problem using the problems in Iraq to produce negative "political dividends" to the Bush reelection campaign, and put a damper on the positive developments, so why should something as significant and overdue as the trial of Saddam be verboten?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Losers. Really a bunch of losers. It's pathetic.

It is so embarrassing, I am even feeling a bit sad for them.

Really a bunch of sad, sad last-straw-graspers.

[Condor51]

Name one, just one ally of Saddam.

Are you series???
Ok, I'll go out on a limb; FRANCE.

[RottiBiz]

I hope the Iraqis get started right away!

(Will make for much better TV watching than Laci and Kobe and the dems will go nuts.)

[Mr. Mojo]

The Slimes' editorialists don't even attempt to hide their bias anymore.

[Destructor]

"What happened to Saddam's right to a speedy trial?"

Liberals want the U.S. Constitution to be a "living document" remember? The term "living document" means a document that is interpreted any way the Liberals say at any given point in time.

So, this concept carries over into the re-organization of Iraq as well.

[hobbes1]

Palestine.

[Zhangliqun]

WHOA, WHOA, WHOOOOOOA! HOLD ON, STOP THE FREAKIN' PRESSES!

Excuse me New York Times, but, uh....had there been elections yet in Germany when the Nuremburg trials started?

[Nevermore]

How elitist can you get?

Uh, Punch, this isn't about you or your pal Kerry. It's an Iraqi trial of an Iraqi criminal. You flat-out have no business having a voice in the matter.

[JustaCowgirl]

I seem to recall yesterday sovereignity being handed back to Iraq. Did I miss something? Was it handed back to Iraq and the NY times? they should keep their big noses out of this and let Iraq run their own country.

Maybe Chirac needs to tell the NY Times to mind their own business and quit trying to tell Iraq what to do.

[AnnaZ]

Brokaw for Kerry VP?

You know he'll campaign hard either way...

 

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