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LOL- Saddam is suing the UK for war crimes
BillieTheBot
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1135099,00.html 
I'm really looking forward to his trial. It could yet prove a major embarrassment for the US and British governments.
I'm really looking forward to his trial. It could yet prove a major embarrassment for the US and British governments.
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Personally I'd prefer to see Saddam face justice for the tens of (hundreds of?) thousands he's killed and tortured.
Based on Saddam's record on human rights and war crimes how can he sue anyone for war crimes?
Perhaps the new Iraqi government could sue, or an organisation representing the families of the prisoners.
He is just as entitled to justice as ANY one else. Yes this bloke is defending Sadam, but everyone should have the right to a fair trial.
Its a mockery that the US hasnt signed up to this court given all their talk about human rights abuse else where.
I think this should go ahead, if there is evidence that this happened (and I think it did) then why shouldnt they get punished in the same way?
And yes, maybe Blair but particularly Bush have done enough in the last 2 and a half years for a war crimes trial to go ahead. Don't expect that to happen though...
As for Saddam, I remain highly skeptical of the 'trial' he's to be put to. At the end of the day any normal trial would have round the clock coverage and maybe even live TV feeds. Would the Americans risk having Saddam take to the witness box and spill the beans on the very long and productive relationship he had with successive US governments for many years?
Or the stockpiles of WMDs we sold him?
We bitch about suspects being held without trial and without a lawyer in Cuba, and just as they should get all the rights, so should he.
But as you say, its quite probably not going to happen. Too many vested interests.
Plus, would it not be better to put him before some sort of Iraqi court? That way maybe it wouldnt string along for years like anything in the Hague is bound to.
Soldiers being killed, making an utter mess of their occupation and killing countless Iraqis in the process? Certainly not.
Saddam suing Britain for alleged war crimes, bringing Blair into account for waging an illegal war under false premises and causing the deaths of some 15,000+ Iraqi civilians plus tens of thousands of conscript soldiers, and being responsible as head of government for British troops' unlawful killings and human right abuses of Iraqis?
Yes, I would enjoy that IMMENSELY. And I make no apology whatsoever for it. Who wouldn’t enjoy it?
If only the mad murdering Texan had signed to the International War Crimes Tribunal like the rest of the civilised world did, we could be having an even more interesting day at the court.
As a matter of fact it's a damn shame Saddam, Bush and Blair are not made to sit on the same bench in The Hague and be tried together for their crimes.
Don't you actually agree?
And while we are at it other people could be brought to justice as well; namely past heads of government and their ministers from the US, Britain, France and any other nation that happily supplied Saddam with all sorts of weapons and even encouraged him to commit the atrocities he committed.
No wonder the Americans don't want Saddam to be tried properly by The Hague. Imagine the Pandora’s box that would be open if the defence start calling ex-Presidents and Prime Ministers as witnesses.
Hey, even better, let's cut his head off.
I'd enjoythough the sight of Blair arrested and imprisoned
I don't agree, and the majority of British people won't agree. Why? Who the hell do you think will end up paying for it? How much did you pay in taxes last month? Being a foreign national, do you actually pay taxes?
I hope somebody shoots that fucking French lawyer, any other lawyer sueing the government and Saddam for even attempting the idea.
I was actually being facetious. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Thats the way it should work. Human rights are NOT selective.
As for being pleased the war is going badly, and that war crime trials may take place, how can I, or anyone be pleased about that?!
You may not like either Bush or Blair but to be pleased its going wrong is just sick if you ask me. We're talking about people lives!
Whose lives? If it's not ours it's the people trying to attack us. At best war is only 50% efficient since at least one side has to lose.
I would love to see this going really well, not because I like any of the people who took us to war but because of the problems it is creating.
The Middle East is in serious termoil, the English are getting to be as hated as the Americans, terrorism is going up, 100's if not thousands of Iraqis are dying...the list goes on.
How can ANYONE be happy about that?!
And you want to see that being spent on something like this?
I don't, they can fuck off if they think we're paying for Blair's mistake.
And even in pure economic terms, whatever such trial might cost would be a piece of piss compared with the tens of billions we are spending on the war and subsequent occupation.