Popular Science magazine last week ranked Kansas biology teacher as the third worst job in science. But it sure beats being a defense attorney in the Saddam Hussein trial. One attorney was abducted and murdered last month. Another was killed and one was wounded Tuesday by gunmen in a car. Saddam’s main lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, said “the situation is unbearable” and urged that the trial be moved to a neutral country.
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Agreed! Take it to The Hague!
Joe
George W. Bush and his buddy Ariel Sharon cannot take Saddam to the Hague because if either of those butchers show-up there, they’re both be arrested for war-crimes.
The US had to drop its membership in the World Court in The Hague because of Bush’s criminal status and to protect his buddy Sharon.
That’s how far that stupid bastard Bush has taken the United States down.
Now with the Fallujah Massacre coming to light, they’d better get a longer rope.
Due process and rule of law is not part of the ideology in Iraqi culture, this is exactly why trying to instill a democratic system of government and constituional rights for it’s citizens will not work.
Hey! Saddam was the one that set up the situation there. If that means he can’t find a lawyer, so be it!
Dear Editors,
Can we get a thread for a postmortem of yesterday’s elections? I feel some gloating and chest-thumping coming on.
Right on CF! You know, we can always change the subject and conduct a discussion right here. Wouldn’t be the first time a thread got off point. That said, it’s a great day for America! Two republicans pasted in gubanitorial races and that Jackass Swartezen-grabby handed his head in Cali. And did you read about the Intelligent Design twits being kicked out in PA?http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/Meanwhile, back at the asylum (DC), Republican leadership is demanding an investigation of the latest leak about “Black Prisons”. Now we have Lott saying the leaked info probably came from a republican meeting with Cheney. Where does the line for volunteers start to load the guns republicans will use to shoot themselves in the foot?
God, I love a good melt-down!
XXX,
Seeing as how we aren’t getting our own thread, I guess we’ll have our pow-wow here.
First, my response to yesterday’s results:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha.
I’d say that GOP had their asses handed to them yesterday.
The best spin I heard was Gov. Mike Huckabee from AR, claiming that the GOP’s losses were really a good thing because they’ll “help us to motivate our base going into next year’s elections.” That was so goddamn funny I almost got a hernia laughing. What a tool. If that’s the best spin the party of professional liars and traitors can come up with, they’d better get their golden parachutes packed now.
So, on his first outing, I’d say Howard Dean did pretty well as chair of the DNC. The real test is next year. And then 2008.
Elections? You are talking about NJ and VA Governor races? They were Democratic in the last election, even at the height of Bush’s popularity.
This is not considered a defeat by the GOP, because they didn’t lose anything.
With the exception of the ballot iniatives in California. I”ll give the left that.
But they couldn’t take back NYC though.
Wow. Joe Williams is talking to me again. I don’t know how to respond.
Any time a red state elects a Democratic governor to an open seat, I call that a victory. Particulary in the case of VA, where the Democrat was not an incumbent (term limits kept Warner from running again), and where Bush deliberately associated himself with Kilgore, and put his prestige on the line. Kilgore’s defeat underscores Bush’s weakness. I think this is a big win and a real opening. How big, and how real, we won’t know until this time next year. But the DNC needed to win this one, and they did.
The NJ governor’s race revealed an unmistakable stink of GOP desperation. Running attack ads featuring Corzine’s ex-wife; what was Forrester thinking? But I’ll agree that this was less significant, and not a bellweather.
With Bloomberg, that’s what one gets when one spends $100 million. It’s also what one gets when one runs as a centrist Democrat rather than on the customary divide and conquer Republican platform–which is precisely how Bloomberg ran. Given how out of the Republican mainstream this makes him, Steve Gilliard predicts that Bloomberg will leave the GOP in a couple of years.
California: stick a fork in Schwarzenfuhrer–he’s done. Between the slaughter of those eight ballot propositions and the voting down of TABOR last month in Colorado, I detect growing fatigue in the electorate with extra-legislative initiatives.
Amen, CF.
The Republican campaign strategy of running on “fears, smears and queers” is starting to lose its appeal, apparently.
Maine voted to keep gay rights. All those conservative “strict constructionists” who believe in the 10th amendment must be ready to have their heads explode . . . marriage is a state’s right issue.
In the voice of that obnoxious bully on “The Simpsons:” HA HA.
Meanwhile, the DEMOCRATIC mayor of St. Paul who pulled a Zell Miller and campaigned for Bush . . . he’s history.
It’s become perfectly obvious that fearless leader Bush has become the Republican’s biggest liability.
Galahad, indeed. And I’d say that no one has been quicker to seize on that fact than…Trent Lott.
I think a lot of the “Voter fatigue” comes from the constant litany of corruption and abuse of power from republican government. And Galahad makes a good point about fear. I think the republicans have ridden fear to death. People just don’t wet themselves everytime some republican pol says “mushroom cloud” or “WMD”. Everything the republicans have touched has turned to shit. Voters are ready for a change.
I think those in power today in Iraq are worried about what a good legal team might bring out in Court. Who worked WITH Saddam during his reign – both inside and from outside Iraq. We know that Donald Rumsfield had involvement with him. So, those currently in charge on the ground in Iraq do not want him to have a complete and open trial.