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Originally posted by Iron Greasel:
Indeed. The whole POINT of free speech is that anyone can voice their opinions, no matter how wrong they are. Opinions include hating other people's opinions and hating other people for their opinions.
Robert the Bard: The problem of giving a trial to an ex-dictator is that they have never actually committed any crimes. But you still have to get rid of the leader of the opposing country because that gives the war a nice sense of finality and prevents him from making a comeback. In the Bad Old Days they just axed the invadee right away, without messing about with accusations. But now, in this modern age of information technology, it pays to at least pretend you are the good guy, justly fighting the forces of darkness for a just cause. So we get a nice and happy mock trial, after which the evil overlord of evil is invariably executed. Well, sometimes exiled.
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I'm sure the families of the thousands of people that Saddam ordered executed would disagree, but hey, that was an internal matter, it's not like the US moved in and set up shop. But, if Iraq isn't to be allowed to try their own criminals in their own courts, what's the point? The only negative things that I have ever read about his trial/execution concerned incidents at the execution, not the fact that it was carried out.