How is it that Saddam Hussien can boycot attending his trial?
114184
Same way Bush can walk around without GOING to jail!!
197415
yes he actually just made his first testimony. \n\nyou can check the details from these links:\n\nSaddam Hussein turns the tables at US-run show trial (http://www.asiantribune.com/show_article.php?id=3070)\n\nSaddam Hussein testifies for first time (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-03-15-saddamtrial_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA)\n\nSaddam Hussein labels trial a 'comedy' (http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1592961.htm)\n\nthe trial's now adjourned for the next three weeks.
809303
Lock him up with only Tony Blair for company.  Having to listen to him without respite is appauling torture I know and probably would be against the Geneva convention but ... what the heck!
315138
Wouldn't you have been present at the trial?
860177
A totally different topic. Saddam was sentenced to death because of crimes against humanity (if you believe that). In other countries, you may not agree with a head of state, but the underlying problems are greater than any one person can tackle.
491757
no we shouldnt have done it by air, then we would have probs on our own soil.  how would we have gotten saddam to trial by air??  how would we have stabilized their country by air??
822641
The appeals process is quite limited in Iraq and will be gone through rather quickly.  Then the verdict and sentence must be approved by the Iraqi president (and two others, I think).  The approval probably will not take long either.  While there is another Saddam trial going on, he could be executed before its completion.  My feeling is that all trials on all charges should be completed before he is executed so that there will be documentation of all his acts before he dies.
459512
The trial is the way to go. I know it is a pain to watch this thing drag out. We've got to give the Iraqi people a chance to develop their democracy. This is a great exercise in controlling impulses to just kill someone with out a trial. The people of Iraq need this to know that if the worst among has been treated fairly then if they go to court they will also be treated fairly.\n\nIt sure would have been great to kill him in the short run, but in the long term success of Iraq as a free nation this is the way it has to happen.
343044
He will have a bail hearing.\n\nThey you can bail him out until the trial.\n\nI recommend you call a lawyer now.
684881
Yes!!!! Though he never will be. Bush pulled out of the World Court, I guess because he wanted to try Saddam. The funny thing is we started it when we wanted to try the Nazi's. Don't see Saddam being tried in a world court.\n\nI bet he gets a fair trail in Iraq since early on one of the panel already said he was guilty. And guess what the President Of Iraq is? A KURD!\n\nBush has been tried in the Court of Public Opinion and he should be impeached and thrown out of Washington before he does something else stupid.
166378
A crook.  His testimony will bring light to more crooks in Washington.  He'll be in jail for a while, if justice is done.
883443
I presume that you meant US rather than UK.\nI wish I could argue with you but on this occasion Britain went to war without just cause and the Iraqi bogey man must therefor punished while the real enemy of this country still sits in Downing Street at our expense.\nIf the US believed that they had a genuine case, Saddam would have been tried by the International Court instead of by patsies in occupied Iraq.
810197
You don't say who made this request to the Coucil and in what circumstances.  It sounds as though the Council is being gently prodded to think things through and perhaps withdraw an action to recover what is owed on the grounds that the person is somewhat deranged or mentally handicapped.  Those hearing the case can't say such a thing outright, but they can drop loud hints to the effect that if a person isn't in a fit mental state to deal with his financial affairs, it is perhaps not a good thing to bring him to court, especially if he is arguing with deep conviction that he doesn't understand why he is being prosecuted and doesn't feel he owes anything.  Maybe now that we are not allowed to use Latin in court, "moral culpability" is the new "mens rea".
1089549
If anyone believes his innocence, they should be fine with an impartial international trial taking place to prove his innocence
926760
The established principles of Natural Justice are: 1) An accused can not be punished unheard. 2) A person can not be judge of his own action. 3) An accused can not be punished more than once for the same offence. 4) A person can not be compelled to be a witness against himself. All these principles have been very scrupulously followed in case of Saddam Hussein under full gaze of the entire world. The extra-liberal western democracies were keeping a vigil on the methods adopted during trial of the accused. He has been awarded the punishment as he has been accused of an offence which is rarest of the rare kind and proved beyond all reasonable doubts. Hence, the punishment is fully justified. His crime is a crime against mankind, even Allah will be pleased at his hanging.
703052
Ummm... if you've been watching the news he has all ready been prosecuted. He is going to be hung. \n\nShould he be prosecuted for killing 148 people who supposedly tried to assasinate him? I think it depends if the people actually tried to assasinate him.\n\nAnd that is just one of the crimes he has commited. \n\nHow ignorant of people to blame Bush for everything! If you haven't done you're research don't make generalizing comments. Saddam is being judged by an Iraqi Court, not an American one.
277500
The judge is attempting to be fair and impartial. Last I checked, the Judge is a member of the same religious sect as Saddam Hussein al-Tikiriti (to use his FULL name). The judge is bound by their jurisprudence which is based upon the Brittish system. Mr. al-Tikriti is being tried by jury.