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Originally Posted by adaher
Saddam's crimes against the Iraqi people must be punished by the Iraqi people.
In the case of a lawless society as Iraq was under Saddam, all laws by necessity have to be after the fact. Murderers, rapists, and burglars who comitted crimes under Saddam's reign don't get to go free either.
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So he's being tried by a court that was formed by the US, with judges appointed by the US and financed by the US, the prosecution assisted by US attorneys, and certain "crimes" such as the gassing of the Kurds (done with US supplied weapons, at the urging of Donald Rumsfield) are off limits.
He's being tried for a crime that involved an attempt to assasinate him, treason under Iraqi law, the guilty were put to death, which is also the penalty for treason in the US. So the imposition of the death penalty is somehow a crime for which the president is now subject to the death penalty.
This is just victor's justice, where the vanquished leaders are executed, at least the Romans were honest about it, and did it as part of a huge pageant, rather than pretend it was an actual legal proceeding, this has got a lot more in common with Stalin's show trials than with the judgements at Nuremburg.