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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Totally not the point. The point is, an impartial and fair trial would remove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the stench of US manipulation on the outcome. It would have left the verdict and sentence invulnerable to rhetorical attack in the future. As it was done, the result is extremely vulnerable to questions in the future.
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There is no way that the US will not be blamed for every little thing that happens there, the trial of Saddam is no exception. No matter how it is handled there will be talk to the US tainting it. I'm not saything that the US isn't at fault or that they're not doing things that they shouldn't but even if the trial was truly impartial and fair, no one would believe it because people like to blame other people.
By the way you guys have interesting ideas for alternatives to the death penalty but I don't see them working. You would have to get alot of laws changed before you could put inmates to work like someone said. It would be called "cruel and unusual punishment." Sure, innocent people could get killed, and probably have but I believe that the death penalty remains one of the most efficient ways of dealing with true criminals.