Ted Rall's transcript of the upcoming Hussein trial -- great read!

[Emillereid]

THE TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN

Selected Highlights From a Future Transcript
Ted Rall
BAGHDAD--AHMED CHALABI: Good morning, Mr. Hussein. I am Ahmed Chalabi, chairman of the Iraqi National Congress, President-in-Waiting of the Islamic Republic of Occupied Mesopotamia and special prosecutor in The People of Iraq (news - web sites) vs. Hussein.



SADDAM HUSSEIN: I know who you are.



AC: Are you Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), most recently to have resided at No. 4 Chicken Run Road, Basement Apt. 1, Ad Dwar, Salahuddin Province?



SH: The one and only!



AC: Very well. As you are aware, you have been charged with a number of serious offenses. Let's begin with your war against Iran, which killed more than a million Iraqis and Iranians between 1980 and 1988 and destroyed our national economy.



SH: Ah, well, I can explain that. I wanted to give up that stupid war as soon as the Iranians began fighting back, but Secretary of State George Schulz kept bugging me about it. He called me up all the time, in the middle of the night--like the whole world is on Washington time, you know? Keep on rockin', Saddie, he said. Don't be a wuss. You're our strategic bulwark against Iran. I admit it. I was flattered. When the Great Satan tells you he needs you to become his "strategic bulwark," what are you gonna do, say no? Plus President Reagan kept sending me cash and bombs.



AC: Did you use a nerve gas called tabun against the Iranians, in violation of the 1925 Geneva protocol against the use of chemical weapons?



SH: Well, yeah, but Donald Rumsfeld gave me a note. ...more...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=%2Fuclicktext%2F20031218%2Fcm_ucru%2Fthetrialofsaddamhussein

I wonder if they'll ever give Hussein the forum to spill the beans -- he'll probably come down with some dread disease and die an untimely death.

[maggrwaggr]

1. we're gonna near as much from Saddam as we have from Tariq Aziz

and Manuel Noriega ...

[RBHam]

2. Rummy, old buddy!

The President sends his regards.

[sasquatch]

3. Yeah he'll get a "fair trial", in a pigs ass he will!

Do you think the BCF is going to let Ol'Saddam sit on the witness stand and tell everyone who's idea it was for the Iraq/Iran War? Hell NO!! Hell the BCF will get worse treatment from the Hague than Saddam ever will. Saddam is just the BCF's former hitman if you look at the whole picture. The Bosses always fall down the hardest and the BCF isn't going to let that happen:(

[shockingelk]

4. The trial must be televised! n/t

[RBHam]

5. That's so cool!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/uclickcomics/20031215/cx_tr_uc/tr20031215&e=1

[shockingelk]

6. I got this idea from the Bible! (warning, tastless sick picture)

Uday Hussein inspecting the crucifixions:

[ConsAreLiars]

7. Great!

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