How come bush killed 30,000 iraqis (without a plausible cause) and got away with it and saddam is being tried?
103778
how many americans have been killed because bush told them to go to iraq????? america has got the biggest propaganda machine in the world!and most of this stupid world believe the americans and stupid soldiers go to fight a war which has got nothing to with freeing the people of iraq but to steal the countrys money, power and oil supplies
286661
Saddam committed his alleged crimes within the boundaries of Iraq and should be subject to Iraqi justice if indeed he is found to be guilty.  I have believed all along that the Iraqi people are the ones that need to handle whatever is to be Saddam's fate.  \n\nIn view of the controversy surrounding the death of Slobodan Milosevic, I am a lot more comfortable that Saddam will receive actual justice and we will not have to worry about this kind of thing putting a cloud over the whole thing.
55400
Political Charade.  Even Saddam admits that he would rather just be executed now than allow Bush to feel that he is just when he eventually orders it.\n\nThe names of the judges are secret.\nThe names of the witnesses are secret.\nThere is NO jury.\n\nAlso, one should be held to a trial that would be expected at the time of the crime was committed.
937636
Bush is to blame . . .\n\nThe perpetrators of 9-11 were members of Al-Qaida. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 or Al-Qaida, and Bush misled the American people into believing the necessity of a false war.\n\nIn so doing, he cost the lives of thousands of brave american soldiers.\n\nOur freedoms over here have been curtailed by Bush in ways that haven't happened in hundreds of years - including the abolishment of habeas corpus and the illegal wiretapping efforts.\n\nFurthermore, as a result of invading Iraq, anti-american sentiment has INCREASED all over the world, as has the number of terrorists that are angry at the US.\n\nYou've been lied to, fooled, and deceived.
422614
Helllll, yes! Please read, The Four Reasons.\n\nThe invasion of Iraq is illegal within the framework of the laws of the United States Constitution and the United Nations Charter. \n\n\n1. The invasion of Iraq has been planned for many years by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an organization founded by a small group of right wing political ideologues and corporate elite dedicated to promoting American global leadership. The PNAC signatories hold the most powerful positions in the current administration and other highly influential political offices. Read their Statement of Principles and note the signatories. Read the PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" for a detail of their military strategy for American global  hegemony. The Downing Street Memo and other key documents unambiguously indicate that the policy of regime change in Iraq was planned as early as July 2002 and "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."\n\n\n2. Many members of the Bush Administration are convicted criminals. The World Tribunal on Iraq held it's culminating session in Istanbul in June 2005 and declared the Bush Administration guilty of starting a War of Aggression, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity as indicated in their Declaration of the Jury of Conscience. A War Crimes Tribunal held in NYC on August 26, 2004 found many members of the Bush Administration guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and high crimes and misdemeanors for which they are impeachable (audio of Ramsey Clark). The International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan convened in Tokyo, 2003 found the Bush Administration guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the invasion of Afghanistan. The Brussels Tribunal has conducted "A Hearing on the Project for the New American Century" to discuss the nature of a premeditated, preemptive wars - a "war of aggression" being the highest international crime. In 1992, an International War Crimes Tribunal found the senior officers in the first Bush administration guilty on 19 counts of Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and other criminal acts in Violation of the Charter of the United Nations, International Law, The Constitution of the United States and Laws made in Pursuance thereof, for crimes committed during "Operation Desert Storm". View a list of our `elected' officials, their appointees, and their criminal offenses.\n\n\n3. There is no degree of separation between the current administration and those who control the means of production, the means of communication, and the military-industrial complex. Those individuals will benefit unfathomably from this and many future wars already planned by the PNAC. View information on who is making the money from the "War on Terrorism".\n\n\n4. "We the People" pay for "Operation Iraqi Freedom", the staging of "multiple theatre wars", and the killing of the innocent peoples of foreign lands in the name of Freedom and Democracy, while 'elected' officials pass radical legislation taking away our rights and controlling the flow of information.\n\n\nIn addition, wiretapping American citizens, and ADMITING the he planned on invading Iraq even if they did not have weapons.
1117514
Bush is already the new mass murder\n\nBush lied thousands died
262405
Indeed, I wonder how long he'd last on the streets of Baghdad! I think one would have to be extremely politically correct to worry whether or not Saddam's getting a fair trial... Sad though it is - and a noble experiment - Bush's plan to bring democracy to Iraq has predictably turned to crap; give them democracy and they'll elect an autocratic cleric or madman. The Middle East typically produces characters like Saddam, essentially because that's what it wants. You can't educate people who are stuck in the Dark Ages.
53825
No way. The G.W. Bush administration is commiting a crime. And that does not end in Iraq, it continues in Guantanamo Bay and with the continuation of the death penalty against its own citizens. Only hypocrites can believe that this is morally and justly correct.
820296
Those scheming Iraqis ! In spite of our technology and military they somehow managed to get our oil under their sands.\n\n   That is exactly why Bush wanted justice by making them return our oil. I am totally clueless how anyone can blame him.
932899
You know by looking at my rating I have half a brain I spend half my time laughing at the spelling, questions and ohhh God these answers, enough to know why American is in trouble. However, you are one of the true intelligent ones.  I will beat you are not American, are you?  I agree and if you want to hang Saddam for killing 300,000 Iraqi what do you want to do to someone who has killed 600,000 along with 2700+ Americans.\n\n"Retired Army War College prof. and CIA analyst (6 years) answers questions ranging from the gassing of the Kurds in Halabja [Iraq was not responsible, nor was it genocide by the Iranians], to Israel's push for war on Iraq; and the "chief enemy of the peace movement, the media."\n\nAmericans believe what the want, you're a racist if you love the Confederacy or its flag, Saddam did this or that.  The CIA reports that Saddam did not gas the Kurds!  If you do not believe that file a Freedom of Information Request, see FOIA site below it fills out the request for you (I did -he didn't).  But see for your self!\n\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
757237
I think it's because Saddam's trial would have looked better if he was tried by Iraqis (poetic justice, if you will).  The whole trial was basically a PR spin job (why do you think it was the Sunday before elections?)  Plus, they knew they'd get a straight conviction in an democratic Iraqi court (Read: Iraqis hand-picked by the US government with an already pre-disposed hatred of Saddam), while there could have been complications (hung juries, mistrials) in say, a UN court or whatever.
525284
2500 GIs deserved better than to be sent to die for "He tried to kill muh Dad," WMD lies, and geopolitical control of a foreign subcontinent.\n\n"Hearing of 9/11" (poster below me) is irrelevent. Iraq played no role in that event. None of the 19 participants were Iraqi, or had ever once in their lives set foot in Iraq. Iraqis should not have had to pay in blood for a crime they had no involvement in whatsoever.
751383
this war and Saddam was not worth one penny or one life.if you think about it,Saddam got rid of all his weapons and was complying with all the U.N. sanctions therefore he should have never been attacked.Bush stated he didn't care what the inspectors said he knew there were weapons and would attack any way.2 years later he admitted he was wrong because he was given bad intelligence.so he should be tried for war crimes.too many people have died because of his bad intelligence.
557555
They should have given Saddam to the Iraqis to drag through the streets 3 years ago. The trial doesn't mean anything to the Iraqis, it's for George Bush.
986696
"Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court and sentenced to death by hanging. \nHe was found guilty over his role in the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail in 1982."\nWhy is he sentenced?Because elections are nearby so Bush must prove somehow that he is making progresses in his "war against terror"...
121601
The difficult part of your question is "proven". Saddam controlled the area, the media, and all the people on the scene, so obtaining definitive proof might be difficult. They are going to try to prove he did it at his trial. In my view, there is an excellent case that he did, not Iran: \n- as you said, there is no doubt that *someone* gassed the Kurds--plenty of photos, witness statements, etc... \n- They were rebelling against him. This is an excellent motive. \n- Iran is the almost the only other possible culprit, but there are too many reasons for them not to do it. (the other *very distant* possibility might be Turkey, who have their own Kurdish problem also). Iran has its own Kurds and its own problems with them. If the Iranians were going to gas Kurds, they would do so to the ones causing them problems, not the ones causing problems for their sworn enemy. Also, they would be much better off using any poison gas of their own against the soldiers invading their country, not some poor civilians far away from them. \n- The Kurds who were killed were a long distance from where the war was being fought. \n- Saddam has a history of ruthlessness. There are many confirmed events where he acted in a manner consistent with someone who would gas the Kurds. \n- Saddam did not immediately raise an outcry that *someone* had attacked the Kurds. He acted secretive, and thus acted guilty. \n\nI know this is all circumstantial, but if someone else had done it Saddam would easily have been able to prove this because he had control of the area, the evidence, witnesses etc... Often, circumstantial evidence on its own is so compelling that it can reasonably be considered proof.
1012055
though there is no iota of doubt regarding Saddam suppressed and massacred shies, his trial has not been conducted in accordance with principles of natural justice as defense witnesses were beaten up lawyers died under mysterious circumstances. another thing is whether he be given death punishment or life imprisonment that is to be decided by the Iraqis only. the us has no role to play in awarding punishment to other heads of countries. if that is the case what sort of punishment is to be given to bush for the death of countless innocent Iraqis by invading that country with a false charge that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. in this regard we are to learn from the Nepalis  who dethroned their autocratic king without interference of external forces