Saddam Boycotts Trial

[rsvmilly]

SH has been boycotting his trial. Probably the only form of control he can still excercise.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4505406

What puzzles me is I didn't realise he played air guitar

[Ads-Northants]

rsvmilly said:

What puzzles me is I didn't realise he played air guitar

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>> Edited by Ads-Northants on Wednesday 7th December 13:34

[wedg1e]

Who the hell is Saddam Boycott?

[axeman30]

rsvmilly said:

SH has been boycotting his trial. Probably the only form of control he can still excercise. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4505406 What puzzles me is I didn't realise he played air guitar

Surely this photo needs to be a caption compo?

It looks like he's just pulled out a 'finger' gun

>> Edited by axeman30 on Wednesday 7th December 13:38

[JMGS4]

They should do what the Romanians did to Ceaucescu (sp?), trial, guilty, execute the same afternoon....... end of........

[axeman30]

JMGS4 said:

They should do what the Romanians did to Ceaucescu (sp?), trial, guilty, execute the same afternoon....... end of........

Good idea, that way there won't be any embarressing revelations over our illeagal invasion and occuptation of Iraq.

[rsvmilly]

Think how different things would have been if that marine HAD dropped that grenade down Saddam's hidey hole.

[vario-rob]

I am no cricketer but alas Saddam Boycott’s idea of a leg break is altogether less appealing than his Yorkshire cousins Geoff’s

I fear that this trial will do nothing other than fan the flames of unrest in Iraq until its logical conclusion involving a blindfold and a last cigarette.

I am not one for summary justice but in this instance I fear lives would have been saved if the Marines that found him had pulled the pin out.

[Incorrigible]

Is he Geoffs brother

>>Damn 2 seconds late

>> Edited by Incorrigible on Wednesday 7th December 14:01

[axeman30]

rsvmilly said:

Think how different things would have been if that marine HAD dropped that grenade down Saddam's hidey hole.

he must have gotten a right bollocking for not doing so. He coudln't have known at the time I suppose, or maybe Sadam realised what was going to happen and popped out too quickly.

[shadytree]

axeman30 said:

Surely this photo needs to be a caption compo? It looks like he's just pulled out a 'finger' gun

Or giving the finger




with a little PS help

>> Edited by shadytree on Wednesday 7th December 14:08

[wolves_wanderer]

"Vixpy's gift means Saddam never leaves his cell."

[Zod]

His boycotting of the trial illustrates beautifully the difference between Iraq now and Iraq under his dictatorship: then it would not have been possible to boycott your trial, if you were granted the luxury of one, as opposed to being executed extra-judicially. We can compel people to attend trials here, so why is Saddam not compelled?

[rsvmilly]

anonymous said:

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I didn't think Zod's post was that funny!





>> Edited by rsvmilly on Wednesday 7th December 14:21

[FourWheelDrift]

wedg1e said:

Who the hell is Saddam Boycott?

"I never touched that woman in Paris, it was just a tickle and a leg bye and absolutely no bouncers"

[Witchfinder]

[shadytree]

Witchfinder said:

[tinman0]

Witchfinder said:

much better

[hedders]

Zod said:

His boycotting of the trial illustrates beautifully the difference between Iraq now and Iraq under his dictatorship: then it would not have been possible to boycott your trial, if you were granted the luxury of one, as opposed to being executed extra-judicially. We can compel people to attend trials here, so why is Saddam not compelled?

I think it has something to do with Iraqi law. Saddam is STILL in charge of Iraq, and no one has the right to put him to trial, or even question his actions under HIS law!. The only way to have dealt with him would be to have killed him when they found him.

He is more powerful than the legal system, above the law. He made the laws that way but they are still the laws. Saddam is unnacountable for his actions in his own country.

So, he actually did not commit any crimes at all and has nothing to defend as far as he and the law are concerned!

[scorp]

Since Saddams army has been smashed, who is going to carry out his law in the first place? Can't the winning team (e.g. us) declare a new set of laws?