Robert Scheer :
Saddam Hussein Executed
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061229_saddam_hussein_executed/
Posted on Dec 29, 2006
By Robert Scheer
It is a very frightening precedent that the United States can invade a country on false pretenses, depose its leader and summarily execute him without an international trial or appeals process. This is about vengeance, not justice, for if it were the latter the existing international norms would have been observed. The trial should have been overseen by the World Court, in a country that could have guaranteed the safety of defense lawyers, who, in this case, were killed or otherwise intimidated.
The irony here is that the crimes for which Saddam Hussein was convicted occurred before the United States, in the form of Donald Rumsfeld, embraced him. Those crimes were well known to have occurred 15 months before Rumsfeld visited Iraq to usher in an alliance between the United States and Saddam to defeat Iran.
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The fact is that Saddam Hussein knew a great deal about the United States’ role in Iraq, including deals made with Bush’s father. This rush to execute him had the feel of a gangster silencing the key witness to a crime.
Saddamm should also have been kept alive to use him as a witness to the USA_INC/CIA world crimes against humanity in putting him in power to begin with. Then all the other crimes that involved Saddam & Iraq whole life time...This kangooroo court is a sham & illegal and with bring permanent Blow-Back indefinitely ....Who is deciding these foreign policies? Where is the debate in the US?
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