Monday - February 13, 2006

The Delusions Of Dictators

Sodomy Hussein is living in a dream world. He has been for quite some time. Absolute power not only corrupts absolutely, it also messes up your head real bad. Being surrounded by “yes men” and suck-ups for thirty years will do that to you. Pretty soon you lose your grip on reality. Ol’ Sod is simply in the last stages of terminal insanity. It would be a far better thing if someone would just put a bullet in the back of his head and be done with it. This attempt at a trial is turning into a circus with Soddy playing it for everything it’s worth. My solution is simple: gag him, bind him, try him, hang him. The end.

Saddam Launches Courtroom Tirade As Trial Resumes
February 13, 2006
BAGHDAD (AFP)

A fiery Saddam Hussein is back in court after boycotting his trial on charges of crimes against humanity, but said he had been forced to appear. Real people. Real success stories. Yahoo! Personals. See Stephanie and Mike’s story.

“Down with the traitor, down with traitors, down with Bush.. long live the ummah (Islamic nation)… long live the ummah..long live the ummah..,” roared the ousted Iraqi dictator as soon as he arrived in court on Monday.

“I was forced into the courtroom,” Saddam angrily told chief judge Rauf Rasheed Abdel Rahman. Barzan al-Tikriti, his half-brother and former secret police chief, frequently interrupted the session as guards were seen pushing him down into his seat in the dock.

The surprise appearance jolted the proceedings after the Iraqi strongman’s chief attorney told reporters earlier Monday that Saddam and his seven co-defendants planned to continue skipping the hearings.

“No international law can force people to attend trials,” Khalil al-Dulaimi, head of Saddam’s defense team, told AFP. “Unless you change the law and turn it into the law of the jungle.”

First the defense lawyers and then Saddam himself walked out of the court in protest during a stormy session on January 29 in protest at the new presiding judge’s decision to forcibly expel Barzan for being disruptive.

All eight defendants face the death penalty if convicted over the massacre of more than 140 Shiites after an attempt on Saddam’s life in 1982 in the town of Dujail. They pleaded not guilty on the first day of the trial in October.

The high-profile trial has frequently descended into farce, with stormy sessions featuring long outbursts or walkouts by the defendants and their counsel as well as the resignation of the previous chief judge.

- More courtroom shenanigans here ...

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