Show Trial and Show Execution - Barf Alert

The Nation ^ | 12/30/06 | John Nichols

[Loud Mime]

Convicted in a show trial that certainly appeared to have been timed to finish on the eve of last month's US elections, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was hanged in a show execution that just as certainly seems to have been timed to be carried out before the end of the worst year of the Iraq War.

Hussein was a bad player. He needed to be held to account. But even bad players deserve fair trials, honest judgments and justly-applied punishments. The former dictator got none of these.

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A niney-seven-page report by Human Rights Watch, issued late last month, details the severe problems with the trial. The report, based on close monitoring of the prosecution of the former president, found that:

•"(The) Iraqi High Tribunal was undermined from the outset by Iraqi government actions that threatened the independence and perceived impartiality of the court."

• The Iraqi administrators, judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers lacked sufficient training and expertise "to fairly and effectively try crimes of this magnitude."

[Loud Mime]

This artivle provides a list of complaints about Saddam not receiving a fair trial.

The Liberals are now starting their canonization of Saddam, another victim of you-know-who.

[Loud Mime]

OK, the trial might not have been fair; but, the execution was!

[wgflyer]

The spin machines are overheating on this one. Saddam is really kind of lucky that he even got a trial, all things considered. And his execution was amazingly humane. Personally, I'd have more appreciated their use of the shredding machine to the noose.

[RepubMommy]

Iraqis dancing in the street post execution: priceless.

Where was this group when these people's families were being tortured and killed?

[johnny7]

Not so fast... communists wrote the book on 'show-trials'. If anyone should know, it's the pencil-necked commisars at the Nation

[Loud Mime]

I have long been a fan of his being executed by decompression sickness.....give that tyrant the "bends" and let him experience the pain he gave others.

[sgtbono2002]

Why arent these Saddam lovers crying about the "Show" trial of Libby by Fitzgerald.

[msg-84]

Iraqis search in a makeshift morgue for their relatives and friends among victims found in a mass grave in Musayib, just southwest of Baghdad.

Any word from 'The Nation' about the fair trial these people never received?

[ko_kyi]

"Saddam is really kind of lucky that he even got a trial, all things considered. "

No kidding. You didn't see all this hand-wringing over Ceaucescu (sp?) in Romania.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Actually, Saddam should never have been granted this much time. He should have been dealt with during Gulf War I when every yokel in the country (well, except for the usual suspects) screamed for Coalition Forces to drive into Baghdad and finish him off.

But no-o-o-o-o.

We ceded our national efforts to the directives and wishes of the UN. Had common sense prevailed and American force been fully applied, we may never have had to face 911 or the ongoing consequences.

[wgflyer]

"You didn't see all this hand-wringing over Ceaucescu (sp?) in Romania."

True. But, to be fair, CNN especially and the MSM generally were still reeling at the time from the Reagan instigated collapse of their favorite countries and ideology. They were yet in shock.

[Loud Mime]

Since the Saddam Hussein regime was overthrown in May, 270 mass graves have been reported. By mid-January, 2004, the number of confirmed sites climbed to fifty-three. Some graves hold a few dozen bodies—their arms lashed together and the bullet holes in the backs of skulls testimony to their execution. Other graves go on for hundreds of meters, densely packed with thousands of bodies.

More here.

[o_zarkman44]

When it comes to the media and liberals, there is no such thing as a fair trial that involves the death penalty.
Saddam was still powerful enough to direct resistance and influence from prison, even from isolation. His continued living would have given noble followers the incentive to plan and plot his rescue from the evil US empire.

It's all Bush's fault of course.

[AmericaUnited]

And all the victims were just 'show victims'...

[river rat]

I agree - it WAS a show trial and a show hanging...

They SHOULD have shot the sonuvabitch as soon as he showed his face climbing out of his rat hole.....then dragged his body through the streets of Baghdad before hanging the corpse from a flag pole.....

Semper Fi

[silverleaf]

shouldnt staffers of "Human Rights Watch" be busy monitoring justice in places, like say, North Korea, Darfur, and Iran? Tehran- stoning preparations- islamic justice

[dforest]

These bozos are wasting time preaching about fairness to Saddam. He was treated fairly because he was given a trial and failed to make the case for staying alive. He knew he had no leg to stand on. This judgment is no different than other murderers get. No one is surprised at this sentence. They knew it would come. Even Hitler committed suicide, he had no case, Saddam was a bigger coward by trying to use the left to escape his fate. Next week, no one will be thinking about Saddam.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The left can be counted on to feel sorry for murderous dictators (Saddam) unless the dictators are on the right (Pinochet).

[newnhdad]

These people are so demented with BDS that they've become Saddam apologists..
These were the same people that were complaining in 98 that Bush41 didn't "finish the job" in Iraq with Gulf War I..

Psychopaths..

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

What kind of moron writes stuff like this?As a matter of fact it looks like they have a better system than we do!Our courts just keep things going on and on and on with no end in site and that's not justice.This is just one more bit of liberal hypocrisy as we do not care about the extermination of the unborn but want murderers to live and go free.There's no reason why an appeal can't be finalized in 30 days and this would help to make room for criminals in the prison system.