No Mr. Bush, not so fast
US president has announced that he believes Saddam deserves ultimate punishment. He wants Saddam to be executed. He also said, it is Iraqis who should decide his fate. Sound like nice words, but are they? No, they aren't. They are only some dirty words with nice cover. They are some words designed to
1: make US leaders look like true statesmen who believe in the right of people of Iraq,
2: save the US from the embarrassment resulted from a fair, transparent and independent international trial in which Saddam might expose that whatever crimes he committed the US leaders were his partners.
On the other hand, the current governing council of Iraq is not a body representing Iraqi people. As Ramsy Clark, former US attorney general says, that is a puppet council representing the Bush administration's interests. A trial under the rules of this governing council will only allow part of Saddam's crimes revealed. The part in which the US is not shown as the bad guy.
Trial of Saddam must be completely independent from all the parties involved. And even then, world must ensure that there hasn't been any back door deals made that would undermine the impartiality of the judges.
It is clear that during the time Saddam was murdering his people, and attacking his neighbors, US and UK were not the only crime partners of the Saddam. France along with Russia and Germany played their own dirty roles too. Therefore, a complete and transparent trial of Saddam would be embarrassment to all of these countries. And that is why it would be beneficial to them to make a back door deal to limit the trial to expose only some parts of the big picture and not all of it.
US has announced that they might hold Saddam for at least 6 months. Six months gives the US plenty of time to make a new and abiding man out of Saddam. A man who would say what the US wants to be said in his trial.
In order to prevent any psychological manipulations on Saddam while in custody of the Americans, he should be handed over to an impartial third party immediately and should be under the direct supervision of the International Red-Cross until the time for his trial (a true trial) arrives.
1: make US leaders look like true statesmen who believe in the right of people of Iraq,
2: save the US from the embarrassment resulted from a fair, transparent and independent international trial in which Saddam might expose that whatever crimes he committed the US leaders were his partners.
On the other hand, the current governing council of Iraq is not a body representing Iraqi people. As Ramsy Clark, former US attorney general says, that is a puppet council representing the Bush administration's interests. A trial under the rules of this governing council will only allow part of Saddam's crimes revealed. The part in which the US is not shown as the bad guy.
Trial of Saddam must be completely independent from all the parties involved. And even then, world must ensure that there hasn't been any back door deals made that would undermine the impartiality of the judges.
It is clear that during the time Saddam was murdering his people, and attacking his neighbors, US and UK were not the only crime partners of the Saddam. France along with Russia and Germany played their own dirty roles too. Therefore, a complete and transparent trial of Saddam would be embarrassment to all of these countries. And that is why it would be beneficial to them to make a back door deal to limit the trial to expose only some parts of the big picture and not all of it.
US has announced that they might hold Saddam for at least 6 months. Six months gives the US plenty of time to make a new and abiding man out of Saddam. A man who would say what the US wants to be said in his trial.
In order to prevent any psychological manipulations on Saddam while in custody of the Americans, he should be handed over to an impartial third party immediately and should be under the direct supervision of the International Red-Cross until the time for his trial (a true trial) arrives.
posted by Faramin | 12:01 a.m.
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