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USA has violated International Law
Published on December 31, 2006 By Bahu Virupaksha In Current Events
Few images are likely to be more compelling than the picture of a shackled, manacled Saddam Hussein dressed in a dark overcoat calmly walking to the gallows. He was always the defiant one as his name translates in Arabic and he lived up to his name. Not a sign of weakness, not even a nervous twitch as the hangman's noose was fixed round his neck. His lips moving in silent prayer and the dignified manner in which Saddam Hussein faced his death will live in the minds of the Iraqi people. Even his many many enemies have said privately that the grainy images of Saddam's last moments will be his most enduring legacy.

Sadfdam Hussein was captured by the US miltary near Tikrit and was held as a "prisoner of war" by the Americans and as a POW was entitled to all the protection of the Geneva convention and also the recent Hamdan Judgement of the US Supreme Court though restricted in scope to the G"Bay detainees, clearly maintained that enemy combatants were entitled to the protection of both US domestic and International law. Just hours before his excecution Saddam was handed over by the Americans to the al Maliki regime. This act demonstrates the complicity of the US in the judicial murder of Saddam Hussein though for the purpose of public record the US maintains the the "independent" judiciary of the "sovereign" governemnt of Iraq carried out the sentence. It does not behove of an occupying power to send its prisoner to his death when the whole world knows that by any standard of jurisprudence Saddam did not get a free anfd fair trial. Had he been tried by an objective International Tribunal, Saddam Hussein may still have faced a death sentence but the stench of a victor's justice will not vitiate the whole process.

The death sentence was carried out in haste moments before the dawn of ID. Moslems both Shiaa and Sunni find it haighly insulting that the holy month of Id was chosen to carry out the death sentence. Why were both the USA and the Quisling regime in the Green Zone so eager to get rid of Saddam Hussein. Afterall even the Supreme Court did not mandate the excecution till the 27th of January 2007. The two other co accused and awaiting excecution along with Saddam, the Chief Juctice Bander and Hussein's half brother have not been excecuted. Why then the indecent haste to push Saddam Hussein into his grave.

The Prime Minister, al Maliki had declared weeks earlier that Saddam Hussein would be killed before the end of the year. By making such a declaration did not al Maliki usurp the functions and powers of the so called independent judiciary that operated in Iraq. In fact the PM did something terrible:He signed the death warrant of Saddam Hussein before the glare of the international media. In fact when the people of Iraq regain thir dignity they will not forget the act of al-Maliki.

The violence in Iraq will now escalate beyond all sustainable levels. The Baathists so far have remained preipheral to the strife presently unfolding in Iraq. With their cross sectarian links, political training and military skills the regime of the US backed al Maliki will have more than a handful. What is appaling is that al Maliki wants the Baathists to join hands with him and his Dawaa Gang which planned the assasination of Saddam at Dujail in 1982 for which Saddam has now been killed.

In a way George Bush is right: Iraq has crossed a "milestone". From mnow on the struggle will get more vicious and more bloody. The final statement of Saddam Hussein will not bring about an immediate reconciliation but the bais of a national reconciliation are there in that short statement."

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on Jan 01, 2007
Why then the indecent haste to push Saddam Hussein into his grave.

Can't agree with you here. If someone is sentenced, the consequenses should be carried out in a swift manner. We aren't debating if he DID do what he is convicted of. You admited as much yourself. So quit making up reasons to blame America for it's existence.
on Jan 01, 2007
Why then the indecent haste to push Saddam Hussein into his grave.

Can't agree with you here. If someone is sentenced, the consequenses should be carried out in a swift manner. We aren't debating if he DID do what he is convicted of. You admited as much yourself. So quit making up reasons to blame America for it's existence.


Bravo! Well said.
on Jan 02, 2007
I have to wonder...would your reaction have been so emotional and sympathetic if it had been GWB getting the noose? Saddam was captured in Iraq, held in iraq and tried in Iraq by a court of Iraqi law and sentenced to death by an Iraqi court. For far less than he should have been. Over 400,000 deaths---of his own people---have been attributed to him. He's lucky hanging is all he got.
on Jan 02, 2007
P.S. It is post #12 that is breaking the page. There is a mistyped quote tag. Delete the farked tag and the table tags at the end of the quote and you should be fine.
on Jan 02, 2007
Again with the arguing out of both sides of the mouth. The US captured him, and then turned him over to a sovereign, not puppet, government. for the US to have intervened at this late stage would have negated the whole concept of self determination.

But then logic is not one of your strong points. Damned if you do and damned if you dont is your forte'. Quite simply, the US toppled him, captured him, and then turned him over to his own people for them to do Justice with. Their justice is not our justice, but then if it was, then they would be puppets and (as you have already avered) a farce.

You cant have it both ways. But you seem to want it that way as long as you can trash the US. The only reason this is in English and not German or Japanese is not due to Mahatma Ghandi. But the US GI you despise so much.

Have some sauerkraut on Herr Hitler.
on Jan 02, 2007
They care more about a brutal dictator than anything else.


You're so full of shit, no wonder it seeps out through your pie hole.
on Jan 02, 2007
"The violence in Iraq will now escalate beyond all sustainable levels."---Bahu



You'd like that a lot, wouldn't you?

Actually, no....it's been what, four days now, since Saddam got the ole Trapdoor Treatment....the ole "Dangle n' Strangle"....and I heard on the radio that they're surprised at how there's been no more violence than has been usual.



And by the way....according to recent crime statistics, it's more violent and dangerous in Washington, DC and NYC than it is in Baghdad. Should we declare defeat and pull out of there, too?


The whole world has condemned the killing of Saddam Hussein especially the indecent haste with which it was carried out.
---Bahu

So what if they have? Did any of them come to his aid? Try to intervene on his behalf? No.....in the words of the newscaster from the "South Park" movie....

"It's been nine months since Saddam Hussein was killed by a herd of wild boars, and the world is still glad to be rid of him." Amen.
I hope he's enjoying having anal sex with Satan. "C'mon, babe...let's git busy!"

You know, I recall a post you made a while back----and if it wasn't you, I apologize, but I'm sure it was----about what a terrible crime it is that Americans let their Death Row inmates sit there for years and years, thinking about what's coming. About how it was torture to do so and how we should just do them in as soon as they're sentenced. So which is it? It's a crime to kill'em quick only when you sympathize with them, right?
on Jan 03, 2007
Bahu, is there no end to your Anti American bigotry. Hussein was tried and convicted by the laws of Iraq... and executed by the same.


I am afraid you are wrong. There is nothing anti -American in my post, it is a factual assessment of the existing law. Saddam Hussein was a PoW under the charge of the USA. If he had to be tried it had to be in an International Tribunal, not a Shiaa dominated Kangaroo court where in the basic tenet of Anglo_Saxon justicee was denied.

Second the fact that Saddam committed all his crimes when he was a staunch ally of the USA during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980's suggests that he was executed for crimes in which the complicity of theUS will be difficult to sustain. In fact in his chemical attack on the Kurds and the Iranians at Habjala during the Iran Iraq war, Saddam obtained the chemical from West Germany after obtaining the sanction of USA. Kindly brush up on the facts.

You'd like that a lot, wouldn't you?


You are wrong. I want Iraq to be in peace and I'm afraid that the UISA has strirred up things so much that the sectarian divide has now become solidified. The Execution was carried out by a giovernment dominated by the Shiaa and whose leader al Malaki of the Dawaa Gang took refuge in Iran during the Iran_Iraq War and the 1982 assasination atttempt at Dujail was masterminded by al Maliki and his gang. Themen who were killed at Dujail treceived as faitr a trial as did Saddam Hussein and the Chief Justice, Bander has also been sentenced to death. If there is anatioanlist governemnt in Iraq the fate of the present crew will be no different from that of Saddam.

Saddam was captured in Iraq, held in iraq and tried in Iraq by a court of Iraqi law and sentenced to death by an Iraqi court. For far less than he should have been


Saddam was captured by the US military and held as a PoW by the US military. He by the definition of the Geneva Convention and the recent G'Bay judegement of the US Supreme Court was an enemy combatant and hence the USA should have tried him on its own or in an INternatioanl Tribunal. Since US war against Iraq itself is illegal the US administration undet George II thought it prudent to hand over Saddam to the Sadr death Squad for execution. The international prestige of the USA has sunk to lower depths.

The law was retospectively amended and trial procedures changed tetoactively top make Sadda,s actions at Dujail punishable by death. You seem to forget that the Dujail incident took place when the Iran -Iraq war was raging with all its fury and the 1982 assination attempt was made by al Maliki and his Dawaa Gang at the behest of the Iraninas. So there is not much ruth in the charge that Saddam was personally responsile for the deaths.

Again with the arguing out of both sides of the mouth. The US captured him, and then turned him over to a sovereign, not puppet, government. for the US to have intervened at this late stage would have negated the whole concept of self determination


The USA turned him over the night before he died and it turned him over to a Shiaa death Squad that taunted and mocked a man as he was being led to the gallows. Not many would agree twith you that the present Iraqi government is a sovereign governemnt. It does not control its own territory and that is the first attibute of sovereignity.
on Jan 03, 2007



You're so full of shit, no wonder it seeps out through your pie hole.

Nice reply, but my resopnse is still correct. 

on Jan 03, 2007
You're so full of shit, no wonder it seeps out through your pie hole.
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Why does everything you type have to be vile, vulgar and just plain nasty? Oh, that's right...you're a liberal. Case dismissed.
on Jan 03, 2007
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Why does everything you type have to be vile, vulgar and just plain nasty? Oh, that's right...you're a liberal. Case dismissed.


The second exaggeration on this thread. Excuse me. I thought we were all adults here. I guess I was wrong.
on Jan 04, 2007
There are individuals who cannot for the life of them avoid being vile and vulagar. I try to answer them mustering all the skills I possess. Abuse is not a substitute for argument. I guess some will never learn.

The execution of Saddam Hussein was a mistake in that it will exacerbate the sectariaN AND RACIAL divisions in Iraq. Now Saddam Hussein has become a martyr to the cause of Iraqi Independence and will dominate politics from beyopnd the grave. USA should have avided this and handing him over to a Death Squad thast taunted and tormented him even as he fell to his death will go down as a major error of USA.
on Jan 04, 2007

The execution of Saddam Hussein was a mistake in that it will exacerbate the sectariaN AND RACIAL divisions in Iraq. Now Saddam Hussein has become a martyr to the cause of Iraqi Independence and will dominate politics from beyopnd the grave. USA should have avided this and handing him over to a Death Squad thast taunted and tormented him even as he fell to his death will go down as a major error of USA.

Oh poor Saddam.  He was taunted...how outrageous.  He got more respect than he gave any of his victims, where was your outrage for them?  The surge in violence you guys are hoping for hasn't happened, and most likely will not.  Most Iraqis I bet are glad Saddam was hung. 

His supporters are the ones upset, like yourself.  Big deal...nobody cares! 

on Jan 06, 2007
poor Saddam. He was taunted...how outrageous. He got more respect than he gave any of his victims, where was your outrage for them? The surge in violence you guys are hoping for hasn't happened, and most likely will not. Most Iraqis I bet are glad Saddam was hung.


In fact the US President George Bush has said that Saddam was killed in an undignified manner. I would like, however to ask him How can a lynching be dignified. As more violence rolls over Iraq, and the hold of the US military gets weakened, al Maliki will also face a similar fate.

His supporters are the ones upset, like yourself. Big deal...nobody cares


I am not a supporter of Saddam. I have only pointed out the obvious facts that has been ignored. Saddam death will make no difference to the situation on Iraq and while dealing with politics there must always be an impersonal approach so that our personal feelings do not cloud our judgement. In fact as we have often said Saddam Hussein was a tyrant.
on Jan 06, 2007
In fact the US President George Bush has said that Saddam was killed in an undignified manner. I would like, however to ask him How can a lynching be dignified. As more violence rolls over Iraq, and the hold of the US military gets weakened, al Maliki will also face a similar fate.


I seriously doubt it.  And it wasn't a "lynching", it was an execution.  Why do you have so much sympathy for Saddam?


I am not a supporter of Saddam. I have only pointed out the obvious facts that has been ignored. Saddam death will make no difference to the situation on Iraq and while dealing with politics there must always be an impersonal approach so that our personal feelings do not cloud our judgement. In fact as we have often said Saddam Hussein was a tyrant.


You haven't presented facts about Saddam.  If Saddam was such a tyrant then why are you writing multiple posts trying to gain sympathy for him?  In case it wasn't shown on al-jazeera or where you get your facts from, there were many people in different countries celebrating the fact that Saddam was hung. 
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