None on the Right-side of the blogosphere would dispute that Charles Krauthammer is one of the BEST columnists in the MSM. Today he wrote another BRILLIANT column, bemoaning the proceedings in the Saddam trial (which the novice Iraqis are allowing to Saddam to turn into a propaganda forum). Krauthammer suggests that they put Saddam in a glass booth, the way Eichmann was. THAT'S BRILLIANT. AN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT SUGGESTION.
Er um... I made it first - on December 6th:
Er um... I made it first - on December 6th:
SADDAM'S OUTBURSTS/TIRADES/HARANGUES ARE OUT-OF-ORDER! IF THE JUDGE CAN'T SHUT THIS GENOCIDAL MANIAC UP WITH HIS GAVEL, THEN WHY NOT PUT HIM IN A GLASS BOOTH!? IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE...Great minds think alike.
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Except for the fact that you weren't . And that's only after 10 seconds of googling.
Feel free to delete this post (like you have my other posts) but you and I both know the truth.
mccoy you are WRONG and delibeately misleading. typical.
Here's the article you linked to.
(1) Except for the title, it makes NO SUGGESTION that Saddam actually be put in a glass booth. It does compare him to Eichmann and MERELY uses the expression for tyhe sake of dramatizing that comparison.
(2) The article was written BEFORE the trial of Saddam in Iraq had begun, so THE REASONING behind its comparison of Eichmann and Saddam is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM MINE AND KRAUTHAMMER'S. We argue Saddam should be in a glass booth becasue he is turning the trial into a propaganda trial for his side.
This comment by you reveals your insane bias against the Right: that you would LIE and then actually provide a link which PROVES YOU LIE/DISTORT - anything to win an argument!
This is typical of idiotic tin-foil-hat Leftist SCUM.
HERE THE ENTIRE ARTICLE (filed/posted 12/18/03 LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER SADDAM WAS CAPTURED; THEREFORE, IT CAN HAVE NOTHING/ZERO/BUPKUS TO DO WITH THE TRIAL WICH ONLY BEGAN THIS YEAR!):
NEW JERSEY JEWISH NEWS
Ready the glass booth
“It was a very interesting trial. People were outside with transistor radios, which everybody was holding in the street. My husband wanted things to come out that the world didn’t know. People couldn’t believe it. They couldn’t believe that such a horrible thing happened in the 20th century, that human beings could do such horrible things to other human beings. The court was full every day. You couldn’t get tickets.”
The words above were spoken in 1996 by Yehudit Hausner, whose husband, Gideon, was Israel’s attorney general and the chief of the prosecution team in the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. We can only hope that similar words are spoken in years to come by Iraqi women, when they look back on the trial of Saddam Hussein for crimes against his own people.
Comparisons between the judicial fates of Eichmann and Saddam are inexact, to say the least, even setting aside the uniqueness of the Holocaust. Israel was a thriving, sovereign democracy when it captured, tried, and ultimately executed the mastermind of the “Final Solution.” There were no competing factions loyal to Eichmann or what he represented. And there were no questions about an occupying army and the specter of “victor’s justice.”
Each of those differences will have to be dealt with in the months to come, as the United States and its partners work with Iraq’s Governing Council to ensure a prosecution of Saddam that is fair and open. The United States should address these challenges head on and ignore calls for a United Nations tribunal that we suspect would be as long, drawn-out, and ultimately unsatisfying as the endless prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic.
Like Eichmann, Saddam committed crimes against humanity that call for a public process of expiation, and a repudiation of all he did and represented. His victims and their survivors deserve no less. A public trial conducted in Iraq by Iraqis could have the same seismic effect in the Middle East in the 21st century as Eichmann’s trial did across the world in the 20th.
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McCoy: eff off!
mccoy, as i pointed out, the arrticle you linked to was written days after the CAPTURE of saddam, and NOT now - during the trial.
Krauthammer and I were commenting on the trial.
I made the comment before Krauthammer or anyone else.
please read what you post and link to.
and pleae only post a comment which is true.
or i will delete it.
like i just did.
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