[NormsRevenge]

Here's to a Judge Roy Bean level performance by the new Judge. ;-)

[ozoneliar]

Glad to see the judge has a spine.

[jazusamo]

Sounds like Allah just crapped on the Butcher of Baghdad's head. Every dog has his day and Saddam's is near.

[DTogo]

Colleagues call him sober, straight-talking and tough.

Never heard remarks about Ted Kennedy.

[jocon307]

Good for this judge. Is this a jury trial?

[Joe Boucher]

If he were a tough judge he should have ordered Sadman to have a ball gag installed and tied to the chair. As for the others involved they should get the same.
As for the lawyers, nonsence from them, should get them contempt time in abu grib.

[snowsislander]

When Saddam's co-defendant and former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, told the judge that he would not stay without his lawyer, Abdel-Rahman interrupted him.

"You were in office all these years of the regime, were the courts at that time like this one?" he asked.

"Better than this, and the courts were legitimate and established according to the state's law," Ramadan replied defiantly, then said he wished to leave.

That seems to me a strange interchange. Didn't this judge serve in the previous Iraqi courts? If so, even for a rhetorical question, it still seems an odd one.