Ok, so we got him, and he'll likely be found guilty of crimes against humanity in some big military tribunal.
WHat should the punishment be?
WHat should the punishment be?
creative...Originally posted by Superdeft
Dang, we can get rid of MJ and Saddam by shipping MJ out to Iraq and leaving them together in one of Saddam's "spider holes"! :devil:
screw that, i say we release them to the hippies that support them so much.Originally posted by Bonk
I say we get Osama too and just publicly release both of them in the streets of New York.
Huh?... I'm confused. You want to release them to people that support Osama and Sadam?Originally posted by BurlySurly
screw that, i say we release them to the hippies that support them so much.
Ung, for some reason that sounded cruel when i thought about it. What the hell am i talking about?Originally posted by Bonk
Huh?... I'm confused. You want to release them to people that support Osama and Sadam?
I was thinking along the lines of all the people of New York turning them into a pile of mush...if there was any misunderstanding in my statement.
...or even removed from power for that matter.Originally posted by beckah
any of those sound appropriate ....too bad half of the evil dictators removed from power are never tried for their crimes
He should be tried in an Iraqi court or in international court, but why the hell in American court. What in the world do have to jump in and take the justice from the Iraqi people. May be you could put in Cuba like all those supposed terrorists, awaiting a kangaroo court. With the FBI not allowing lawyers representing suspected terrorist to make public comment in the USA. What ever happen to free speech, liberty and the presumption of innocents before trial. These are some of the most important things in western democracy and America seems to be forgetting them of late.if he is tried it is going to be in international court...he probably wont even see the united states
There is no reason he should see the United States. He's an Iraqi. Let him be tried there.Originally posted by beckah
if he is tried it is going to be in international court...he probably wont even see the united states
I thought the idea was to punish him. The last thing we need is another reality show.Originally posted by Westy
Really the only logical thing to do with Saddam is to give him his own reality show. We could do a Joe Shmoe deal with him, get CNN and Fox news in on it and we could make him beleive that he got elected as President of the US. It would be the finest moment in television when the shows producers tell him it was all a joke, the greatest prank of all time.
He will probably not see any court outside Iraq. And definitely not the Hague. They are intersted in only crimes after 2001. And Saddam needs to be punished for the crimes he has been committing against his own people long before that. The only right thing as I see it, is to let the Iraqi people judge him and do with him whatever they want to. Something tells me, he's probably as comfortable as he is likely to be. From here, it's all downhill for Saddam.Originally posted by llkoolkeg
If we send him to the Hague, he'll just end up in a comfy jail cell.
Every time he opens his mouth, I like him more (barring the whole "gooks" thing).Originally posted by Spud
McCain told NBC's "Today" show that information gained through torture is unreliable and that such tactics are beneath the kind of nation America is.
The Republican senator from Arizona adds he doesn't think the U.S. should make a deal to get information from Saddam.
When McCain called his former captors Gooks he made a huge political blunder. But I personally could not hold it against him. We can not even begin to imagine what he suffered those years in the POW camp. He was explaining how much he hated his captors and found the most extreme word to describe it. He has shown no animosity to the VietNamese people. He was being honest and payed for it, but that is why I think he needs to be POTUS. It would be nice to have an honest person in office, even if they have a potty mouth.Originally posted by ohio
Every time he opens his mouth, I like him more (barring the whole "gooks" thing).
My uncle was a POW in the Phillipines during WWll. He never spoke of those years. He left for war weighing 190+ and came back at a svelte 105 with nary a tooth in his head. It was 30 years later before he came to grips with the hate he had developed for all Asians. In 1975 he went to Japan to face his demons. He died 3 years later. I hope he found some peace on that trip.Originally posted by Westy
When McCain called his former captors Gooks he made a huge political blunder. But I personally could not hold it against him. We can not even begin to imagine what he suffered those years in the POW camp. He was explaining how much he hated his captors and found the most extreme word to describe it. He has shown no animosity to the VietNamese people. He was being honest and payed for it, but that is why I think he needs to be POTUS. It would be nice to have an honest person in office, even if they have a potty mouth.
Really? I couldn't tell. You hide it so well.Originally posted by ohio
Agreed. I was being quite serious with my statement. And people on this board know well how much of a not-republican I am.
In my book, he should be able to say that word if he damn well pleases, but only in reference to his captors... if he called the vietnamese people gooks then that would be a different story.Originally posted by Westy
When McCain called his former captors Gooks he made a huge political blunder. But I personally could not hold it against him. We can not even begin to imagine what he suffered those years in the POW camp. He was explaining how much he hated his captors and found the most extreme word to describe it. He has shown no animosity to the VietNamese people. He was being honest and payed for it, but that is why I think he needs to be POTUS. It would be nice to have an honest person in office, even if they have a potty mouth.
I also had an uncle who was a POW in the Philipines. He would never speak of it but seemed to move on. He actually became a Japanese translator for the British government, travelled to Japan regularly and made several close Japanese friends.Originally posted by CRUM
My uncle was a POW in the Phillipines during WWll. He never spoke of those years. He left for war weighing 190+ and came back at a svelte 105 with nary a tooth in his head. It was 30 years later before he came to grips with the hate he had developed for all Asians. In 1975 he went to Japan to face his demons. He died 3 years later. I hope he found some peace on that trip.
John McCain's mistake for using "gook" is more than understandable. I have to give him and any ex POW credit if they can find it in their hearst to forgive those who mistreated them. I really wish John was running. I'd vote for him in a New York minute. And I am not a Republican.