Saddam's Human Rights
Human Rights Watch has released a 97-page report denouncing the guilty verdict of Saddam Hussein for his killings of 148 people in Dujail, a town north of Baghdad, because of, "procedural and substantive flaws." The sight of Saddam making impromptu speeches in defiance of the judge during his own trial looked like a procedural flaw to me. The Iraqi judges did not conduct his trial in the manner that we in America would recognize, with a jury and the presumption of innocence and cross-examining witnesses, but this was still the most open and transparent trial in terms of justice that Iraq has ever seen.
Seriously, does anyone doubt that Saddam ordered 148 people killed in a town that plotted his assassination? The most rabid haters of President Bush admit that Saddam was an evil man. Does anyone doubt that Saddam used poison gas on the Iranians and the Kurds? Even Bill Clinton criticised him for those gas attacks on the Kurds in 1996 and punished him with missiles hundreds of miles from the action. Fundamentally, Human Rights Watch decided that one execution of a mass-murdering dictator is worse than the mass murders that the dictator committed.
Human Rights Watch complains that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared Saddam guilty before the trial started. Earlier this year, Congressman John Murtha (D, NY) said that American Marines killed Iraqi civilians in Haditha, "in cold blood," before the Marines had even been arraigned and indicted. When NYPD officers shot Amadou Diallo, Hillary Clinton declared them guilty of murder before any trial had begun. Diallo was an immigrant from the Caribbean who did not speak English and bore a strong resemblance to a rapist, Isaac Jones, whom the detectives were seeking. Late at night, when the officers ordered him to put his hands up, he instead reached into his back pocket and pulled out something black. The officers drew pistols and fired immediately, killing him. The object turned out to be his wallet. When Human Rights Watch denounces John Murtha and Hillary Clinton, we can take them seriously.
Seriously, does anyone doubt that Saddam ordered 148 people killed in a town that plotted his assassination? The most rabid haters of President Bush admit that Saddam was an evil man. Does anyone doubt that Saddam used poison gas on the Iranians and the Kurds? Even Bill Clinton criticised him for those gas attacks on the Kurds in 1996 and punished him with missiles hundreds of miles from the action. Fundamentally, Human Rights Watch decided that one execution of a mass-murdering dictator is worse than the mass murders that the dictator committed.
Human Rights Watch complains that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared Saddam guilty before the trial started. Earlier this year, Congressman John Murtha (D, NY) said that American Marines killed Iraqi civilians in Haditha, "in cold blood," before the Marines had even been arraigned and indicted. When NYPD officers shot Amadou Diallo, Hillary Clinton declared them guilty of murder before any trial had begun. Diallo was an immigrant from the Caribbean who did not speak English and bore a strong resemblance to a rapist, Isaac Jones, whom the detectives were seeking. Late at night, when the officers ordered him to put his hands up, he instead reached into his back pocket and pulled out something black. The officers drew pistols and fired immediately, killing him. The object turned out to be his wallet. When Human Rights Watch denounces John Murtha and Hillary Clinton, we can take them seriously.
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