USA Today article on how the US is interrogating Saddam

[southerngirlwriter]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-16-saddam-usat_x.htm

They're showing him videotapes of the tortures he ordered, among other things.

Completely closing my mind to the political ramifications here at home, and focusing solely on what SH is responsible for, I want to cry. Justice is a beautiful idea, but there is no justice in reality. Oh, they could gouge out his eyeballs, tie his hands behind his back, and lock him in a room with the families of people he tortured and murdered. That might give some of them some closure, but it's not justice.

I am reminded, oddly enough for someone who hasn't watched TV in half a decade, of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. A basically omnipotent being murdered an entire species because they killed his wife. He confessed to Captain Picard, who let him go. He said: "We have no law to fit your crime."

So it goes.

[southerngirlwriter]

1. A kick for ME, gosh darn it!!

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