An International Trial for Saddam?

[Paranoid]

http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/12/we ... iller.html

I promise I wont make a habit of this, but found the analysis made just after General Clarke's quote quite interesting. Beforehand I was all for Iraqi's trying Saddam as it would be the biggest sign of a new beginning and Iraq controlling themselves. However, seeing as there still in the middle of writing the constitution and laws etc it would leave the process up to bias with the knowledge that the trying of their former president would be the first to experience these new laws. And after reading this article, I'd love to see the world's leading powers being taught a lesson (not just America), if Saddam's lawyer was to call upon key figures as the above article suggests, the removal of saddam would signal both new peace in the middle-east, and give world powers the kick up the a*se they need! (Can you tell I've had a radicalist lecturer all semester?)

[hr]..I've got this pain down all the diodes on my left side...

[Pilmour Boy]

Saddam's crimes were against humanity as much as they were against the citizens of Iraq. He should be tried without any possibility of later accusations of factionalism.

The International Criminal Court was designed for this sort of thing, and is exactly what it should be used for.

[Buzzboy]

Shame Iraq isn't a signatory to that agreement and neither is the probable prosecutor America. The ICC would be great if we could use it, which we can't, so we have to rig up some International tribunal thing, which looks decidedly like a large Australian Marsupial.

[hr]On the Seventh Day God said to Adam:

"Can I leave it with you?"

[Nick Mitchell]

[s]Buzzboy wrote on 11:42, 19th Dec 2003:so we have to rig up some International tribunal thing, which looks decidedly like a large Australian Marsupial.

Well it worked well enough in regard to Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Tokyo and Nuremberg. And I'm pretty sure we'd get a more legitimate trial from a panel of international jurists than from the new Iraqi regime.

[Paranoid]

My own personal point was that the presumably righteous powers would be shown up to not be so! Politics is never honest and clear, and the evidence leading up to the whole Iraq problem proves that!

[hr]..I've got this pain down all the diodes on my left side...