U.S. wants Saddam, but dead - not alive - Eric Margolis

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Chances are Saddam, like his sons, will be killed in a Bonnie and Clyde-style shootout. He is unlikely to be captured, unless incapacitated.

The Bush administration will be delighted not to put Saddam on public trial. Dead dictators tell no tales.

The White House would much prefer to display a bullet-riddled Saddam as a trophy to divert mounting criticism over U.S. casualties in Iraq and the litany of falsehoods it used to drive America to war.

If put on public trial, Saddam would have a field day revealing the embarrassing alliance between his brutal regime and Washington:

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1. Margolis is the only one calling it Murder......I applaud him!

This excerpt which no one wants to talk about in our Government, House and Senate. This statement which even our candidates are afraid to say (and, I understand why politically). Who will be the first elected official to speak that word......The US is Murdering heads of foreign countries and their children. And, there is silence.........

EXCERPT

"Killing foreign heads of state violates international law and the directives made by three American presidents. Dropping 2,000-lb bombs on sites where Saddam was believed to be is called attacking "leadership target
Ms" in the new Orwellian Pentagonspeak, but it's still old-fashioned murder from the air. Gunning down Saddam will also be murder, or, to use a more polite term, assassination.

America, the world's greatest democracy, has no business murdering foreign leaders. Such behaviour is criminal, immoral, undemocratic and reeks of the law of the jungle. Past U.S. attempts to murder foreign leaders have proved self-defeating."

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