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personally, i suspect that hussein will meet with some "accident" while awaiting the trial. i cant see how the court could get out of the jurisdication argument---i cant see how the americans would want to have the trial itself go on--particularly given that when iraq filed a reponse to the un before bushwar about the wmd questions, they dealt with procurement, and that in itself made the us nervous enough to go to great lengths to edit/limit the information in the report. i could see the whole thing turning into a fiasco.
it looks like a no win situation for the bush squad and their iraqi quislings...the charade of legitimacy is so fragile....right now, hussein would be tried under american law as i understand it, which is a funny kinda way to demonstrate the sovereignty of iraq....
i am not getting a sense as reactions pile up from various sources that there is whole of directly pro-hussein responses---he might be turning into a symbol of a kind of fuck you geroge bush response, which would be at once not surprising and depressing. but this sort of thing has happened before.
is the suspicion of international courts etc. really just a function of this particular situation--i dont believe it----still interested to see
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