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?
And what about Saddam’s Right to subpoena key people for his trial such as the neocons, Donald Rumsfeld and Bush. Saddam may have wanted to ask what role Israel and Halliburton played in Bush’s decision to go to war.
Considering that the US failed to find any of the Weapons of Mass Destruction, that Bush and the neocons claimed were there to justify the war, the only sane course of action would have been to bring in a third party such as the court in Brussels to judge Saddam Hussein by International Law.
The reason that wasn’t done was that an International Court would find that the invasion was illegal, that the Bush regime had acted criminally and had gone to war while most nations in the world were content that Saddam let the weapons inspectors back in.
Saddam Hussein had been left in power in 1991 by an international agreement as long as he destroyed his WMDs and didn’t make any more. The UN did not consider the crushing of the Shiite rebellion in 1982, a valid reason to dethrone Saddam. In fact, Donald Rumsfeld was in Baghdad a year later shaking hands with Saddam so even the US didn’t consider that action significant.
Given the fact that Bush’s war was illegal, the only reasonable thing would have been to put Hussein back in charge, which is what the Brussels Court might have ruled —-which is why the neocons avoided an outside court the way a vampire stays away from a crucifix. Returning Saddam to power of course would have been extremely embarrassing for Bush, so he and the neocons decided to murder Hussein using their puppet Maliki and a rigged court system. Executing a foreign leader after a war of aggression is yet another war crime.
The execution of Saddam was nothing more than the old adage “Might makes Right.” The US is too powerful for other nations to challenge and our politicians lack the morality to behave like civilized human beings. Zionists control America and the mass media. Zionists lied us into a war on Iraq. And after 16 years of slander against Hussein, they had a rigged court in Iraq execute him. America has become that much more a pariah nation, just like Israel.