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December 14, 2003
Ding dong! Saddam is gone! Saddam is Gone! The Wicked Saddam is Gone!
I woke up this morning (11am counts as morning, right?) to learn what the world had been celebrating for Hours Saddam Hussein has been captured. It goes without saying that this is good news...
The article I am linking to uses the word "arrested" rather than "captured", and while this may have significance only in a legal sense, it is precisely in that sense which we must begin to think...
Saddam iswasa monster, responsible for the deaths of millions and leader of a regime which killed yet more. The United States now has him in our power. We need to show the whole world what we do with Criminals against Humanity...
A recitation of Saddam's crimes would take pages, fortunately Human Rights Watch has done this job for us. There are many charges listed here, but the only one that he should be prosecuted for is Genocide...
The United States Government will be tempted to link the Trial of Saddam to the US's own War Aims of Terror and Weapons of Mass Destruction. While there is evidence there, it is of tertiary importance at best...
If someone were to break into my sister's home, kill her and her fiancé I would not demand that her killer be tried for Breaking and Entering! In the same way, trying Saddam for the tools he used to do his ugly work would be wrong, wrong, wrong. Saddam must be tried for the Big Crime: Genocide...
If he is tried, and that trial is even remotely fair, he will be convicted. Once he is convicted, we can either execute him or put him in a cage in Baghdad and invite Iraqi children to beat him with their shoes. Either way, the species will be shed of one of our greatest predators. And the World will know what the United States this is important...
*update*
Dean has a lLink to the press conference.
Posted by Andrew at December 14, 2003 11:43 AM
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