Iraq Court Sentences Tareq Aziz to Death

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters / Iraq State Television

Iraq court sentences Tareq Aziz to death
20:02 AEST Tue Oct 26 2010

Iraq's supreme criminal court sentenced former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to death on Tuesday, state television reported, the first death sentence handed down against the longtime international face of the Saddam Hussein regime.

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Saddam Hussein Confident Sentenced To Death
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

October 26, 2010
Iraqi state TV says former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz has been sentenced to death for persecuting Shiite political parties during Saddam Hussein's regime.

State TV reported the High Criminal Court issued the death sentence Tuesday.

Aziz was charged with taking part in a campaign against members of the Dawa Party, of which Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is a member.

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[bigworld]

2. interesting guy

Unforgivable as it is to have been a part of Saddam's inner circle, Aziz always struck me as intelligent and genial. Also interesting is that he is (Chaldean) Catholic in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.

[Prometheus Bound]

3. I've always thought he was an interesting guy too.

I hope he has time to write a book before they do him in, if indeed they do.

[Bragi]

4. Will any Americans be sentenced for the same crimes?

Now that wikileaks has spilled the beans, one wonders how the Iraqis can hang this guy when there are so many Americans who should also be hanged for committing the same crimes?

(The question is rhetorical, of course. No Americans will be hung by Iraq or the American government for torturing and killing Iraqis.)

[Billy Burnett]

5. He's being hung for resisting US/Big Oil imperialism.

The same reason the US was trying to kill Castro.

638 Ways To Kill Castro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7zf3cUPAa8

[RZM]

7. You sure about that?

From what I know, Aziz was the 'front man' for the Saddam regime - his role was to put a nice face on it for the foreign audience. Whether or not you like the US invasion, Aziz had a role in the Saddam regime, which committed gross human rights violations within Iraq's borders. That is what he's on trial now, because the tables have turned and now the Shi'a are calling many of the shots and they haven't forgotten the past. It's bizarre to bring Castro into this and disingenuous to claim that Iraqis would execute Aziz for resisting 'US/Big Oil imperialism.' Not everything revolves around the United States - billions of people around the world have concerns that don't have a whole lot to do with the US. This is something that many Americans of all political stripes have trouble grasping.

[MX96391]

11. because Americans did not commit the same crimes

[Ghost Dog]

6. This is so unjust I am speechless.

Political trial, political sentence.

[MX96391]

12. Well deserved sentence

While Saddam and his people were not as bad as Bin Laden, they were still awful murderous thugs.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. He's a Christian, isn't he? (Looks it up) Yep, he is.

Message to anybody who comes with the "no real Christian" BS: Fuck you and the fallacy you rode in on.

[Ginto]

9. The Iraqi people would sadly be better off if people like Saddam and Aziz were back in power.

Now all they have is chaos.

[Ter]

10. What BS, he was the most moderate guy in that regime

It wasn't his fault, he should be freed.

[MX96391]

13. He was a murderous thug

There were no moderates in that regime.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Even a bunch of high-ranking Nazis were not sentenced to death. They got prison instead.

It was only those involved in atrocities that got executed.

Do you think that was in error?

[Ter]

17. The only reason he's being killed is because he knows something

He murdered no one.

[jmowreader]

18. What a thing to be!

That's like saying Nixon was the least corrupt president if you limit your sample to Nixon and the last three Republican presidents. It happens to be true, but doesn't change the fact Nixon was still so crooked he had to screw his pants on in the morning.

[Posteritatis]

20. That's an awfully low bar, don't you think? (nt)

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. Better headline: Angry Muslims prepare to hang elderly Christian man

;)

[DeSwiss]

16. K&R

Maybe we can get the Iraqi Supreme Court to convict Cheney and Rumsfeld, et. al., since we're not looking backwards..........

[reorg]

19. Pablo Escobar: Aziz's story will remain untold

>> ... Anyone who does not see this as a political verdict is a believer in democracy by "shock and awe". In this case, revenge is served to current Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Shi'ite Da'wa party, which had been persecuted under Saddam's Sunni regime. Everyone else loses badly - because Aziz is arguably the only person on Earth who could tell the real story, bit by juicy bit, about the rolling, decades-long American dirty game in Iraq.

His is the ultimate political best-seller we'll never be able to read - telling for instance how the US, the United Kingdom and the Saudis shelled out over $60 billion for Iraq to go to war with Iran during the 1980s; what was really discussed between Saddam, himself and former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Baghdad when they met in 1983; how every Western politician paid homage at the court of Saddam - the man who would get rid of those demented ayatollahs; how Saddam beat the late ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's human waves of martyrs by spraying them with Western-supplied chemical weapons; and how those fabled "weapons of mass destruction" were nowhere to be seen since 1995 at least - thus rendering George W Bush's and Tony Blair's casus belli null and void.

When US Marine Corps entered Baghdad on April 9, 2003, his villa was plundered - by the marines and by local mobs. I went to see it as soon as I could (A (mis)guided tour of Baghdad Asia Times Online, April 18, 2003), finding a DVD box set of The Godfather saga - Saddam's favorite was the first one - right at the door. On April 24, Aziz surrendered to the Americans. He was the eight of spades in the Pentagon's infamous deck of cards. (Saddam was the ace of spades.)

History may judge that Bush and Blair - with their Moloch-style terrorizing machine dubbed "shock and awe" - have been no better than Saddam's inner circle; directly and indirectly, their "policies" killed more Iraqi civilians than Saddam ever did. Yet they did (Blair) and they will (Bush) publish books extolling their "glory".

Aziz instead is the only one left with a real breathtaking story to tell. And as the proverbial man who knows too much, he had to be taken out. <<

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