Poor Saddam

[opebo]

What goes around, comes around

Dave

No it doesn't, Dave.

George Bush has killed far more Iraqis than Saddam, and no doubt he will die in patrician comfort some decades hence.

[opebo]

I wonder if the people here who are claiming that Saddams trial was "rigged" and other such nonsense would have said the same things about the Nüremburg trials.

Saddams trial was rigged by the invasion.  Of course trials are always about imposing the will of the powerful upon the powerless, so the idea of a 'fair' one is completely mythical.

[opebo]

You should know, angus, that the people of which you speak - either asians in general or their 'UN caucus' have absolutley no power to effect the human rights abuses of the empire.  And if the purpose of such a prosecution would be to increase their sensible hatred of said empire, I'm sure it would be impossible to do so.

I saw an interesting story on TV here the other day, regarding Bush's ill-considerd visit to Indonesia:  Before the Iraq aggression, the great majority of Indonesians polled viewed the US favorably.  Now, of course nearly all of them hate the US.  It makes one wonder - how were Hitler and Germany viewed before Poland?