[lbo-talk] Saddam Hussein's Arrest and the Peace Movement

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> CB: Yes, as far as I know.
> 
> Hussein might have more "damaging" testimony about U.S. giving WMD's
to
> him. I don't recall any discussion of WMD's with Noriega. Of course, I
guess
> he might not want to admit that he had WMD's at his own trial. I
wonder if
> he could raise a defense that the U.S. invasion was a violation of
> international law. Sort of a Habeas Corpus action, illegal search and
> seizure of Saddam.

That is perhaps why the Bush gang wants the "trial" to take place in
Iraq and be administered by the Iraqis.  That will make the legal
formalities you mention superfluous.  Just like shipping the prisoners
to Egypt to be tortured on the US behalf.  Someone else doing the dirty
work so the gangsters in Washington DC can have nominally "clean" hands.

Wojtek