Tuesday - November 29, 2005

Naughty, Naughty Dictator

This is what mass-murderers are reduced to these days. It’s bad enough he hid in a hole in the ground for months, then emerged lice-infested and crying like a whining coward but now that he is on trial he is behaving like a spoiled child. Where have all the good mass-murdering dictators gone to? At least Hitler had the dignity to shoot/poison himself and his “bride” before the roof caved in.

This is almost embaressing to see what used to be a miserable, strutting peacock of a brute forced to whine and cry because they took his pencils away. Hang him and be done with it. The man is a craven coward and is an embaressment to the entire human race. Can’t they just charge him with “conduct unbecoming a formar mass-murderer who has seemingly lost the last shred of dignity he ever possessed”? Guilty! Hang him! Case closed! Next ....

Hussein Is Unruly as Trial Resumes
Charged With Ordering Executions, Former Dictator Complains About Guards, Supplies
BAGHDAD (WASHINGTON POST)

Saddam Hussein, the dictator who once held the power of life and death over millions of Iraqis, was reduced Monday to squabbling over pens and paper during his trial on charges of ordering wholesale executions during his rule.

Scowling and jabbing, Hussein used the defendant’s dock as a pulpit from which to lecture the judge on how to treat foreigners. He complained that while being brought to the courtroom by U.S. guards, he had been handcuffed, forced to walk up flights of stairs and stripped of papers and writing implements.

When the chief judge, Rizgar Mohammed Amin, said he would tell the guards to give him writing implements, Hussein thundered: “Don’t tell them—I want you to order them! They are foreigners and occupiers and invaders.”

The grievances that led to Hussein’s bluster paled in comparison with the charges that could send him to the hangman and with the symbolic importance of the trial to Iraq’s stumbling new democracy. The ousted president left it to his lawyer to challenge the validity of the U.S.-engineered tribunal, and, outside the court, newly arrived co-counsel Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general, questioned the likelihood of Hussein getting a fair trial.

At the end of the day’s proceedings, the trial was recessed until Dec. 5 to give some of Hussein’s seven co-defendants time to find replacements for two defense attorneys who were assassinated after the initial court session almost six weeks ago. Some defense attorneys stayed away from the courtroom on Monday, apparently fearing that they, too, would be killed.

- Read the rest at WAPO if you can stand it

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/29/2005 at 11:45 AM   
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