The Iraqi Strongman - Fighting For His Life

The Iraqi Strongman - Fighting For His Life
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

The Trial of the Iraqi Dictator resumed today, and just barely. Apparently most of the defense team has either been assassinated or fled the country in fear of being assassinated.

I guess that means Old Saddam can't get a fair trial, but what did the US and its cheap-ass coalition of the willing expect? The U.N., as feebly as it currently is, wouldn't get involved because the case has a potential death-penalty outcome; something the U.N. doesn't get down with.

The one thing that really irks me is that Quasay and Uday Hussein weren't taken a live. I wanted to see those sick, sadisitic fuckers face a jury (of their peers or not), and let them try to justify the litenay of their crimes against humanity.

Crimes against humanity-- that's a pretty strong statement to be leveled against an inidividual, sure a government, but a single person.

Whatever the appalling and egregious nature of the Butcher of Baghdad's crimes, this trial is a complete farce. In fact, any kind of trial of a head of state is a mockery of so-called justice, because as a head of state, you have unprecedented powers -- and if it was such a muthafucking problem then

I mentioned the U.N. early, and I was doing some historical research on the now-feeble body, and apparently there was a time when it put troops in the field with a "shoot-first" mandate. Yeah, the Blue Hats bucking people down! I didn't get to finish up my research, but I believe it had to do with the formation of Zaire after the Belgium colonial masters were kicked out, and the CIA had lost control of the situation -- albeit momentarily. In any event, the U.N. sent in troops with guns blazing. I don't know the exact outcome, but I have to assume it wasn't pleasant, because soon after the U.N. passed some new bylaws that pretty much damn near prevent the global body from being anything more than an international debating society. And it was so much more.

I bring this up, because if the world was so fucking aghast at what Hussein was up to they could have stopped his ass. Yeah, it would have meant fucking with a soverign nation (as if there are any true puppet nations), and apparently that should have been okay considering that crimes against humanity were being committed I think it would have been acceptible to go in and control Iraq; not just have no-fly zones, but establish actual areas where Hussein and his Republican Guard couldn't exert control.

I mean the US was already spending money with the no-fly zones, why not installing outside forces to control the Iraqi population, and then gradually ease Hussein the fuck out of power. I'm mean how different would that be compared to what's going on now?

Although we wouldn't have this comical trial.