WHERE DID HE GO? Tell me something, please.
Not too long, I remember they were holding a courtroom trial for someone calling himself Saddam something-or-other. He, even “cleaned up”, looked like an aging hippie who found the mud but not the rainwater at some edge-of-the-Orient Woodstock celebration. I was told our soldiers actually, had to dig him up from a hole dug in the back yard of a small house which had served as his temporary residence during his flight.
He made a pretty good model for an artist's “Study In Gray” sitting there in the Court Room within a square fence made of crib-like materials.
Several of his associates were seated to his right and in back of him as he
he began to speak in his own defense rather than to avail himself of the services of one of his trained, experienced lawyers.
The man seems to have a positive genius for placing himself in suicidal situations. I am among those who wish the searchers had bulldozed all holes shut in the back yard of a certain small unoccupied house. They could have cited sanitation precautions. By choosing to be his own spokesman he has again asked for supreme modes of punishment.
He is not at all realistic. He still thinks he is ruler of Iraq – it's proper
“President “ fully endowed with special powers including those of life and death of those whom he rules.
Then came the the “put off”...”delay”...”recess”...phase of the ”trial all, of course, expressed in impressive legalize terms. He must have followed the recommendations of his legal advisors in this delay tactic. Ramsey Clark among them, urged delay as expected and it has been established routine with them timed to coincide with accounts of the steady growth of anticipated an-ti-Bush sentiments in the United States. Any news item speaking critically of the handling of the war in Iraq lessens the nature of the punishment to be meted out to its former dictator for alleged war crimes. You may that after World War I Kaiser Bill was exiled all the way to Belgium where he chopped wood for the rest of his life.
Is that the type of justice we can expect from “the greatest trial of the
century”- but delayed for no good reason.
Andrew McCaskey Sr. amccsr@adelphia.net 12-14-06 [c404wds]
