What about the Saddam poison-gas trial?

[Smarmie Doofus]

There seems to be no coverage here ( USA), at least none that I've seen. Just an oblique quickie reference here and there tucked into the 'Saddam to Be Hanged Real Quick' stories.

Since the gas crimes took place while Saddam was a US ally, and the components of the gas are believed to have come from the US gov't ....well, what sort of conclusions can reasonably be reached?

[LynnTheDem]

1. There hasn't been any such trial.

The only trial Hussein has faced was for signing death penalty warrants for Shia accused & found guilty of assassination attempt on Hussein & his convoy.

He was found guilty & sentanced to hang.

That's it.

By the way, George w bush has signed more death warrants than Hussein did.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Well .... what's this?

Video of Gas Attack Shown at Saddam's Trial

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — A court saw chilling videos of gassed children lying in a field and villagers fleeing clouds of white smoke as prosecutors argued Tuesday that Saddam Hussein and his regime had used chemical weapons against the Kurds of northern Iraq in the late 1980s.

"These children are the saboteurs that the defendants talk about," prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said sarcastically as the footage showed scores of dead children on the ground, partially covered by blankets.

He was referring to the defense argument that Saddam and his co-defendants were fighting Kurdish insurgents during the 1987-88 military offensive that was codenamed Operation Anfal.

[LynnTheDem]

8. Hussein was only charged & convicted of signing death penalty

warrants against the Dujail men who were convicted of a failed assassination attempt against Hussein's convoy.

That's what Hussein is now convicted & sentanced to die for.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Why do you think they're going to hang him real quick?

They don't want him alive to point fingers at his suppliers.

[tridim]

4. Dead or alive, the US puppet masters would have never let him talk

Especially in an "Iraqi court" whatever the hell that is. The trial I saw on TV wasn't much more than a US produced show. Rummy would never have ever been called as a witness.

IMO it doesn't matter if he hangs or not, people who seek the truth are still going to point fingers at his enablers. We already know what happened in the 80's, we have pictures and documents.

[madrchsod]

3. that`s his second "trial"

in the first "trial" he was "convicted" of ordering 180 some people killed after an attempt on his life.this what what he will be hung for....unless they hang him twice

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. And the second trial will be cut short (unless they choose to try

him post-mortem) because by the US designed law he has to be executed withing X days of conviction.

The original draft of the Iraqi constitution, IIRC, outlawed the death penalty. We objected.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Yeah... I'm on board here. Point is: we need elected...

... war critics to blow the whistle on this and INSIST on a second trial featuring a LIVE Saddam who is allowed his day in court and the opportunity to implicate his co-conspirators/accusers.

Anything less from elected DEMS, is calculated complicity ( just like IWR, but no excuses this time)with a criminal ( in this case *genocidal*, it would appear) conspiracy.

[LynnTheDem]

9. Never happen.

That would result in the exposing of the US propaganda-myths.

And that ain't gonna be allowed to happen.