[lbo-talk] Saddam captured

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Mon Dec 15 19:11:32 PST 2003


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Brian Siano opined:
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>>Looks to me as though Saddam's getting medical attention, to make sure
>>he's healthy enough for incarceration and trial.
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>Why bother with such formalities? You, your "commander in chief," the
>majority of your countrymen, and above all the media have already
>pronounced him guilty.
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And with good reason. You may wish to acknowledge this.

But, if you want to be pedantic enough to insist that only a trial can establish his guilt, you'd have to give Hitler and Stalin the benefit of the doubt as well.



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