Please don't type in all CAPS, it's the equivalent to YELLING, let alone hard to read, thank you.
Do you really think that the Americans would allow Saddam Hussein to confess to his crimes against Kurds?
He is still their darling puppet.
Yes to Independant Kurdistan.
The Kurds must reject American unjust policy in Kurdistan.
the Americans clearly don't want Saddam to have access to a free tv trial.
the reason is simple...they have supported him before and they are scared that he might something not in their interest...otherwise why edit it ?
Kurdo fully agree with you.
My dreams were shatterd when I soon realized that the Americans are not for an independant Kurdistan but for a sovern Iraq just as usual, shortly after their occupation of Iraq. I am so disappointed about "westren democracy" and "their love of freedom". I now know it was all lies. The only thing they care about is the flow of oil. Too bad.
Humanity needs to wake up and stop this suffering of people especially the suffering of 40 million innocent and loving people of Kurdistan.
Long Live Beautiful Kurdistan
Kurdo, there are some other considerations.
In most democratic countries, publicly available trial transcripts (especially when related to national security) are censored to some extent. Saddam could reveal operational information (eg who informed on him, or what methods were used to capture him). Or he could use the trial as a soapbox to spread propaganda - and we all know the Ba'athists are very good at that.
I also think that media outlets are too much accustomed to editing everything. This is why newspaper websites, for example, can publish an article about a document, and quote from it, but will not actually link to the document. TV and newspaper operators' power comes from being the medium through which reality is filtered. I think it's wrong, but I also think the media will have to change as blogs grow.
On the actual substance of the case... apparently one of Saddam's lawyers said that the prosecution had made a mistake by choosing a massacre that took place during a war and was a retaliation against an assassination attempt near the village. He said that anyone would do the same in Saddam's position.
Do you think this argument cuts much ice? Saddam apparently had the village strafed by helicopters and had men rounded up and massacred. I can't imagine, for example, Winston Churchill responding that way if there had been an assassination attempt against him during WWII.
I found this blog surfing Global Village.
It is an outrage for the trial to be edited on television. That trial is very important, to the Kurdish cause.
Informative post.
what do you know about what americans feel?
I am an American- I can tell you how i feel. What Saddam did to the Kurds he should have been fed to the wolves- no trial - and his crying of 3 day old undies makes me sick.
He doesnt deserve a trial!
We want all people to live in peace, love and harmony and guess what we are all not warmongers. Generalizations suck.
"What Saddam did to the Kurds he should have been fed to the wolves- no trial"
That's the same way I feel about George Bush for getting 2000 Americans killed and countless thousands wounded for no reason what so ever.
It seems that the Kurds are waking up to the real nature of their 'friend' America. Good. The US will use you for as long as it can, and then drop you like an old shoe that has outlived its usefulness when your dreams of independence become a nuisance to them. Just watch.
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These bastards Americans are against everything known to be Kurd.
FUCK YA BUSH BASTARD.
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