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Old 04-24-2006, 08:09 PM
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Default Re: Saddam signed death warrants

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Originally Posted by CYDdharta
That’s a rather odd belief. If he hadn’t committed suicide, do you believe it should have been likewise applied to Adolph Hitler? Don’t you believe the leaders of nations have any responsibility to the people living in their borders?
George Bush signed plenty of death warrants as a governor.
These were people who were found by an Iraqi court to have been involved in an assasination attempt, and the punishment was death.
Now I don't support the death penalty, but unless you want to haul the governors of numerous US states into court, signing a death warrant for a person convicted of a capital crime isn't a crime.

You can whine about the fairness of the court, but it was a court, and there was a judge and the verdict was guilty.

This wasn't sending people to a death camp because they were jews or homosexuals or gypsys or communists. This was the execution of people convicted of a capital crime.

And no one was convicted at Nuremburg for genocide, the convictions at Nuremburg were for waging a war of aggression.
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