[NormsRevenge]

Former Baath Party official in the Dujail region, Mohammed Azawi Ali, foreground, gestures as co-defendant Ali Dayih Ali, looks on as he presents final arguments in his case during his trial held under tight security in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Monday July 10, 2006. Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants, including Mohammed Azawi Ali, and Ali Dayih Ali are on trial for torture, illegal arrests and the killing of nearly 150 people from Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt on Saddam in the town.(AP PHoto/David Furst, Pool)

[dirtboy]

Saddam, lawyers will boycott rest of trial

Fine by me, as long as he is not allowed to boycott his execution.

[mtbopfuyn]

Wimps.

[NormsRevenge]

Now ya see him,

The turbulent trial of Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity will enter its last phase on Monday as defence lawyers make their closing arguments without a key member of their team.(AFP/File)

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now ya don't.

Mohammed Azawi, a local Baath party official in the Dujail area, gestures as he presents final arguments during his trial in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone July 10, 2006. Saddam Hussein's lawyers said on Monday they will boycott the toppled leader's trial until a sweeping series of demands are met, following the killing of a third member of the defence team last month. REUTERS/David Furst/Pool (IRAQ)

[rwgal]

I see this as no big deal. We all knew that in the end he would rightfully be found guilty and then hanged/gassed/shot...or all three (LOL). So him or his lawyers not being there only makes it less volatile in the court room....let's just git her done and have this clown meet the rest of the terrorist in hell, the sooner the better.

[Tax-chick]

Great. Sentence him in absentia, and then turn him loose in Kurdistan.

[NonValueAdded]

How else could they play out a losing hand?

[MikeA]

Whatever. Hopefully this will speed up getting the POS to the gallows.

[1Old Pro]

Saddam deserves a swift trial and execution. The sooner he's dead and gone the better.

[marron]

Saddam Hussein and his lawyers announced they would boycott his trial

This is fine. A war-trial is not a normal trial, it doesn't have the same purpose. It isn't intended to search for some unknown truth, its purpose is to document the necessary execution of those members of the prior regime who must not be allowed to go free.

Saddam is a danger even in prison, which means he must be hanged. The purpose of a trial is merely to ascertain that its him, and not one of his body-doubles, and to air for the record the reasons he must be hanged.

A defense team in Saddam's case is an irrelevancy.

[dukakis kerry the dream team]

Why is this guy...


wearing one of these?