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Re: With Saddam's sons dead, now we just need to bag dad (Baghdad get it?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:44:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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There was no trial. There is no evidence. Sure, there are allegations.
All I do know is that two persons alleged to be Saddam’s children and
likewise alleged to be criminals against humanity were killed.
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So are you asserting that because they never had their day in court, they
were innocent?
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What ever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?
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That can’t be applicable, the institutions whose legitimacy for trial was
recognized have been overpassed. Trial would therefore be a farce without an
impartial judge.
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BTW: How hypocritical will it be if (as has been suggested) Rumsfeld
publishes pictures of their bodies?
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No longer “if”.
IMO it’s just a question of taste (or sensibility, if you like). Violent death
has become something that is brought to us daily at dinnertime, why should these
two corpses be any different?
On a side reflexion, I wonder if the same power-that-be who allowed for the
images to be release chose to ommit the other two corpses: the bodyguard wasn’t
famous (not even in death), and dead teenagers look bad on TV. Go figure what
strange sensibilities move the human psique...
Pedro
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