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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 06:01 PM
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Vote today: Where should Saddam be tried?
This poll is on an evangelical Christian site, but you don't need to log in to vote. Here's the question and current standings:

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is now in Coalition custody. Where should the Hussein's trial take place?

21% Geneva, or any appropriately neutral U.N.-sanctioned site
6% In the United States, since we put our necks on the line to get him
69% Where most of his brutal crimes took place -- in Iraq
2% In a country adjacent to, but safer than, Iraq

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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 06:04 PM
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1. Howabout the Hague where Slobo's being tried?
Seems like they've got the whole thing already set up.
There really isn't a system set up in Iraq to handle
a trial of this magnitude.
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POed_Ex_Repub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 06:09 PM
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2. It wouldn't happen in Iraq
Too many security issues. If they have fellow Iraqis involved in the trial they'll be flown to the location.
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 06:12 PM
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3. choices 2 and 3 aren't too biased
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is now in Coalition custody. Where should the Hussein's trial take place?

Geneva, or any appropriately neutral U.N.-sanctioned site

In the United States, since we put our necks on the line to get him

Where most of his brutal crimes took place -- in Iraq

In a country adjacent to, but safer than, Iraq



"President Bush sends his regards." even though he supposedly doesn't know about this yet
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 07:13 PM
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4. Seems to me, The Hague is the proper venue to hold this trial.
But, the US won't be able to control the evidence and Saddam's testimony. That would open a very unpleasent line of information that would not be in this administration's interests.

Bush wants the Iraqi's to run the show trial....what does that tell you?
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