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War Dog
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 Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: Edwards - Lawyer second? |
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/inbeltway.htm
www.washpost.com
Inside the Beltway
By John McCaslin
July 08, 2004
Lawyer second
| Quote: | Newly chosen vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards, a trial lawyer in North Carolina before arriving on Capitol Hill, plans on paying close attention to the Iraqi Special Tribunal trial of Saddam Hussein.
"The way Saddam Hussein is prosecuted will either cement, or fatally undermine, confidence in the rule of law in Iraq," Mr. Edwards said in a recent foreign-policy address. "It will either prove once and for all to people in the Arab world that Saddam was a monster or reinforce mistrust of our policies and our judgments about Saddam's regime."
The senator thinks any tribunal that prosecutes Saddam will have to "be seen as legitimate by both the Iraqi people and the international community," and he doesn't think President Bush's move "to turn the entire process of justice over to the Iraqi Governing Council will meet that standard."
"Prosecuting Saddam is not like restoring electricity or picking up the garbage — it is one of the most politically sensitive and complex tasks facing a post-Saddam Iraq," Mr. Edwards said. "Giving that task in its entirety to a council that is neither elected nor sovereign, whose members were handpicked by the United States, diminishes the likelihood that trials will be seen as legitimate."
The senator called instead for Saddam to be tried by the international community, including the United Nations. This past week, Salem Chalabi, head of the Iraqi tribunal, assured critics such as Mr. Edwards that the trial will meet international legal standards. |
So, if the US gets involved in the trial of Saddam Hussen, he will not receive a fair trial, and if the Iraqi's try Saddam Hussen, they are not qualified in the eyes of the world to do this, or are not recognized as a 'actual, legal' government.
Edwards solution is just like Kerry, i.e., to turn everything over to the UN! Oh yeah, this will work! The people who Saddam Hussen had on his payroll in the 'oil for food' program should try him in the UN World Court. Can you say aquittal?
What a farce! What do you think?
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carpro
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Typical dumbcrat thinking! 
No matter what the President or the Iraqis do, it will be wrong.
The solution is exactly what you said, he should be tried by the ones that were on his payroll. The good ol' UN!
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