Jimmy Breslin: No Safer With Saddam In The Slammer

[stickdog]

This article is 100% gold. Everybody needs to read it, IMHO.

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/nyc-bres0103,0,2114805.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

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Howard Dean then said that maybe he was old-fashioned but he didn't think you could judge or punish Osama bin Laden until you had a trial and found him guilty. That was as controversial as saying that when it rains in Queens, the Van Wyck Expressway gets wet.

But suddenly, the Democratic candidates said the statement was atrociously unpatriotic. How can this man Dean say that bin Laden deserves a trial? They said that this was a perfect illustration of Dean talking without thought. And completely un-American, too.

Joseph Leiberman, who is a peripheral candidate now and thus a nasty little man, said that because Dean wants a fair trial Dean is despicable and so weak that he would melt in the face of George W. Bush. John Kerry and Dick Gephardt were wildly opposed. Yet all Dean has to do in this big Des Moines debate Sunday is ask each candidate, "Are you in favor of sentencing bin Laden before you have a trial?"

Let them answer in front of a country that is better than they are.

Great advice, Jimmy!

[giantrobot_2000]

1. ...

Thank you!

[maddezmom]

2. thanks, everyone should read it

but it's a dupe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=55835

[Cheswick2.0]

3. Jimmy Breslin, as usual he is CORRECT

Terrific article, it shows why some people are falling in the polls and scratching their heads in wonder. There is no substitute for character and the truth.

[bfusco]

4. desperation

Lieberman, Kerry and Gephardt's response to those remarks just demonstrate that they are desperate to try anything to invigorate their campaigns that have not generated much of anything. The whole premise of democracy is that everyone should receive a fair trial. The same thing is presently occuring with Milosivich and other war criminals in the Balkans and war in Rawanda. Even Goering, Ribbentrop and Spear received trials and bin Laden's actions dwarf what those criminals perpetrated. Those three had an opprotunity to take a stand in fall of 2002 and blew it by giving authority to the chimp.

[Robbien]

5. And the great unwash masses ask

We caught Saddam, the danger is gone why is the alert on orange?

Bush: Uh, uh, uh.

[FloridaPat]

6. So what would bin Ladin say in a public trial that Leiberman &

Gephart are so scared of having said? They supported Bush at every turn and I haven't heard where they disagree with him on much of anything.

[bfusco]

7. afraid of the truth

Probably afraid of pointing out how complicit the US has been in his activities. The same is true of Saddam. It will be interesting to see what dirty information will come out when trying Saddam for his crimes and how Rummy, Bush Sr. and the Reagan administration enabled him to perpetrate them.

[Moderator]

8. Dupe

Please continue here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=55835

Thanks,
DU Moderator