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Originally Posted by goober
I thought you knew that signing death warrants implies a legal process,
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A legal process implies a process in which the accused can mount a defense, which it appears, was not allowed in this case.
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Originally Posted by goober
I don't know where you got your "round em up and shoot em " version of these events, it's no where in the article.
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The “round em up” part is there, I thought the “shoot em” part was implied by the way it was written.
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Television footage of that day showed Saddam in a military uniform getting out of his armoured car and personally interrogating nervous Iraqis about the assassination attempt.
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Having looked into the story more deeply, it seems that in this case, Saddam did for the Revolutionary Court’s ruling to start the executions. I retract my previous statement. Even though he didn’t wait for the court’s ruling before he had the village shelled, and even though 46 people died in jail waiting for that ruling, Saddam does seem to have waited before officially starting the executions.