[lbo-talk] re A Show Trial (was Tariq Ali's piece at Counterpunch)

[Stephen Philion]

That's one project to work on, and it's certainly worthwhile. The main
point, IMHO, is that the American public must demand that the U.S.
follow through with bringing Saddam to justice. We should be demanding
(through the usual methods, like public protest, barraging
Congresscritters with letters, whatever) that Saddam's trial be conducted by
the Iraqi government without U.S. interference, that the U.S. government
cooperate fully with this crucial step of the reconstruction of Iraq, and
that if Iraq requires prosecution of
American citizens (like, gosh, I dunno, Donald Rumsfeld or Henry Kissinger),
the U.S. should cooperate on this point as well.

--one small problem...the gov't of Iraq answers directly to a foreign
master....