Tim Blair

Hilarious and soooo appropriate !

What, Brown going back on his word? Impossible.

Yeah, all of a sudden the "not in our name" crowd wants to take charge of Saddam's trial.

Interesting that the very same groups who wanted him left in power are now working their asses off to make sure he doesn't face the death penalty. Do they have no shame? Is there no dictator too filthy for them to embrace?

I think we should all wait and see where Barbara Streisand comes down on this issue before we choose our course.

Forget Babs, what about Mike Farrell?

I say let the Iraqis try him with some noxious French lawyer by his side. Just to make it more interesting it could be done in the Kurdish part of Iraq.

Won't they demand a Security Council vote for the decision on where to try him to be truly"multilateral"?
Of course the animal's "human rights" have to be upheld so maybe they can get some of those lawyers for the WTC Sheik to represent him.

Off topic, but read the latest Philip Adams "article." Even by his standards it's completely pathetic, replete with fake turkey and Michael Moore ramblings and concluding with a feeble, bitterly dissapointed joke about Willie Nelson. I know he's dissapointed but goddam...I guess his year couldn't have ended soon enough.

The UN certainly does have a "much greater understanding of the needs and aspirations of brutal dictators." There is no shortage of them represented there, after all.

I'm sure the Iraqis can be trusted to give Saddam a fair trial followed by a fair beheading.

Wouldn't it be cool if Bemmer had announced Saddam's capture in Dr. Seus-style ryming couplets?

We did not find him in a tree, we did not find him in the sea!

For non-americans, a guide to the wolverine.
Yes, it is related to the weasel (Family Mustelidae), but it's bigger, lots meaner, and renowned for chasing grizzlies away from their kills. Now THAT'S tough!
http://www.wolverinefoundation.org/lifehist.htm

At the end of WWII didn't the Nuremberg trials' judges come from nations that had been harmed by Hitler? Were any of the judges from neutral countries?

It seems fitting to me that Saddam and all his henchmen be tried by an Iraqi court system. Let the UN and everyone else stay out of it.

http://www.command-post.org/2_archives/009138.html

Saddam's Capture Leads to Arrests
Looks like Saddam was leading the charges from his hole in the ground after all:

U.S. military officials said Monday they had arrested several resistance leaders in Baghdad based on documents found when Saddam Hussein was captured.

Officials said that some of the documents detailed a meeting of resistence cell leaders -- and included their names.

-Full story at CNN-

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/15/sprj.irq.main/index.html

Tim, I just want to say that when first I encountered your sentence starting "Canada’s leader, writes Mark Steyn," I misread it as "Canada's leader, Mark Steyn." Now wouldn't that be a nicer world to live in.

I am not sure about those comments that Saddam Hussein made. I didn't think he knew how to speak english - but I guess everyone knows the essential phrases:

"What time is it?"
"Where are the toilets?"
"Where is the bus station?"
"Dont shoot!"
"I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate."

I use that last one in electrical stores all the time.

Will people ever learn? Like everything that has happened to this point in Iraq, Saddam's fate will be decided not by the assorted pundits, media experts, and associated whiners - it will be decided by one George W Bush. And thank God for that.

forget all that! where does jack strocchi stand on this issue?

Kofi's up to his veto-ing tricks again.

When Kofi says no, who listens?

I see the cheeky darkie is getting his oar in again.

Meanwhile, what's the betting that the French and the Germans want the contract to supply the machine guns for Saddam's execution?

isn't the badger nasty like a wolverine? thought it was..maybe i'm getting my not-so-cute furry little animals mixed up.

anyway..love the sea animal card.

"...cheeky darkie..."

Uh, freddyboy? Could you drop the racist talk? It just makes you sound like an asshole.

The Badger has a similar feisty attitude, but is much smaller. An adult Wolverine can run 50-60 lbs.

Since the UN made millions of dollars adminstrating Saddam's oil-for-food (palaces) program, the UN has a conflict of interest putting Saddam on trial.

I’m so glad to get away from that turkey story, it had me rewriting poems & lyrics. When I started trying to do a Doors-style “Writer on the fowl,” that was enough. This is much better.

“US Move” by Yeah
Took a straight & stronger course to corner Sodamn Insane.
Made the Ba’athists run so fast, they hadn’t got time to take their brains.
’Cause it’s time, it’s time in time for all time & Saddam is captured—
For Iraq to try.
Did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did that.

So he can't get a fair trial cause the Iraqis are his victims? I guess anyone stealing from the government could raise the same defence because they are really stealing from all of us.

Does Enderby think that the Iraqis are incapable of exercising the same wisdom that the Dutch and Czechs showed when they tried their Nazi overlords?
Back in your box, Kep.

Look here....

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/s314617.htm

"ELEANOR HALL: Well after a long weekend defending herself Magistrate O'Shane has gone quiet today and so has the Supreme Court judge whom she accused of making offensive comments, but one man who is talking is former Supreme Court judge, and a former Labor Federal Attorney General, Kep Enderby, one of the rare voices speaking out in support of Ms Pat O'Shane.

http://www.wolverinefoundation.org/lifehist.htm

Thanks mojo, that was interesting. And I had a laugh about the contrast between the valiant wolverine and the pathetic dictator hiding in a hole in the ground and giving up without a fight.