One Good Atrocity Deserves Another
by James Buchanan
Let’s say the police mistakenly break down your front door, set your house on fire with tear gas and arrest you. When you finally have your day in court two years later, you find that the police who arrested you are now the judge and jury, who promptly sentence you to death.
The only difference between the above analogy and what our government just did in Iraq is that our government did it on purpose. Anyone with the tiniest sense of justice should wince at the idea of a national leader being put on trial by either:
1).a hostile foreign power which just conquered that nation in a war of aggression
or
2).a puppet government acting on behalf of a still-occupying hostile foreign power.
If our legal system says that every citizen is entitled to be judged by a jury of twelve peers, why did we deny this Right to Saddam? (more…)