Saddam: Show trial of the decade? (1 Viewer)

[Morrow]

I have a few problems, to say the least, with Saddam’s trial.
First of all, why isn’t it being done in an international court? After all, he is being charged with crimes against humanity, not speeding down the streets of Baghdad.
Secondly, how could he possibly get a fair trial in Iraq? We move trials out of counties just because of a few newspaper articles about the crime. He was the leader of that entire country. Everyone is going to have a bias one way or the other.
Thirdly, he is being tried in Iraq, under what authority? The trial started before there was a government or a constitution in place!

I think Saddam’s trial is a ridiculous farce, and the reason it is being conducted in Iraq is so they could as many guilty verdicts as possible. Which may not have been possible in an International court, as I understand much of the evidence is heresay. This is an ancient debate, is it still justice if a guilty man is convicted unjustly?

 

[Napoleon's Nightingale]

The powers that be want Saddam's severed head on a pike and they'll do anything they can to ensure that it happens. In otherwords, this trial was over before it began. It is a show trial for numerous reasons but primarily because the Iraqi government keeps booting the judges, whenever it doesn't like what said judge has to say, which is in direct violation of Iraq's Constitution.

 

[hipsterdufus]

Saddam's trial should have been at the Hague. Certainly, there would have been a lot less deaths.