what exactly do you admire about the Nazi?

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But let me pause for a second and ask you a question more relevant to this discussion. What if anything other than “Hell, yeah!” do you know or have you read about that Tribunal?

freevillage on April 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM

Hmmm, before I answer that smart-ass question, what exactly do you admire about the Nazis? And you’re the one that needs to read about the rules of evidence. Which by the way are different from civilian trials because they were military tribunals. I suppose you have a problem with the Eichmann trial in Israel? If so, its not the trials, if the fact that your a Nazi sympathizer.

We can have Baghdad Bob officiate the hanging!

I kind of miss Baghdad Bob. That guy was comedy gold.

Tariq Aziz… Not so much. Hang him.

“He’s still alive. No harm has befallen our brave comrade! See! Look, he’s still breathing! The invaders have no power! Praise Allah!”

Why yes. Yes it is. Get a problem with that, comrade?

Let’s see… Two Soviet judges as well as the main prosecutor were principal organizers of show trials in the USSR. Nuremberg trials were conducted under its own rules of evidence that are not and cannot be accepted in any civilized country these days. In particular, any evidence that the victors did not like was simply not allowed by them as was stipulated during the creation of the Tribunal.

But let me pause for a second and ask you a question more relevant to this discussion. What if anything other than “Hell, yeah!” do you know or have you read about that Tribunal?

Mao? Pot? Khomeini? The Kims? Mullah Omar? Sorry, but Hussein would be lucky to be in the top five. Let’s not fall into this “worst since Hitler” meme again. What Hussein did was bad enough that we shouldn’t need to resort to that.

calbear on April 29, 2008 at 3:55 PM

You’re joking right? They were all equally evil. Its perfectly reasonable to claim how evil he was. If that hurts your sensibilities, well, its too bad. If more people would remember how depraved evil gets then maybe more people would be willing to fight it. So is this what you learned in Berkeley?

Oh, so Nuremberg Trial is now an example of proper judicial process.

freevillage on April 29, 2008 at 2:51 PM

Why yes. Yes it is. Get a problem with that, comrade?

erhaps the worst dictator of the latter half of a century

Mao? Pot? Khomeini? The Kims? Mullah Omar? Sorry, but Hussein would be lucky to be in the top five. Let’s not fall into this “worst since Hitler” meme again. What Hussein did was bad enough that we shouldn’t need to resort to that.

highhopes

Because his religion is partly responsible for his position in Saddam’s government. It’s important.

Supposedly Saddam was brought to the same prison my friend served, but that of course cannot and will not be confirmed to him.

Kafir on April 29, 2008 at 8:34 AM

Boom, bada, bing.

Christian, or Shia, the man was a wheel on the death express.

Watchman on April 29, 2008 at 8:22 AM

God, I hope not. Since he’s a Christian, I hope to hear him begging Jesus for forgiveness before the trap door opens and sends him to a judge who will really make him answer for his crimes.

Think we’ll be hearing that when the phone recording of his hanging is leaked to the world?

…and let’s not forget that all those people who died under sanctions could have lived if Aziz and Iraq would have cooperated with the UN rather than mislead the world down a dangerous path:

“UNSCOM Cannot prove to me that Iraq is not disarmed!” he [Tariq Aziz] said.
“You misstate the matter, Mr. Deputy Prime Minister,” I replied. “Our job is to verify your claim. It is not to prove a case to you. We are not prosecutors or inquisitors. The council established a three-step system, and you know it very well: Iraq declares, UNSCOM verifies, and together we destroy, remove, or render harmless. That’s what the law says. It says nothing about proving any case to you or to your government.”
-Australian Ambassador Richard Butler, fmr head of UNSCOM, The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Growing Crisis of Global Security

Pro bono, of course.