The Hague has been an established protocol for trying despotic leaders.
2006-12-26 02:24:42 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because an international court most probably wouldn't have convicted him to death...And because there are some political interests in judging Saddam in Iraq...US probably thinks that by killing Saddam things are going to get better there...but the execution is likely to provoke an angry response from Saddam Hussein's supporters...and he will probably be seen as a martyr from now on...
Yes,Saddam is guilty of many things,but he would have deserved a fair trial,not the play put in scene by a court that is a marionette of the US...
But if you think about it,if he would have been trialed in Hague,probably the outcome would have been the same:death...Look at what happened to Milosevic,former Yugoslavia president...
"We were not at all surprised, as we are convinced that this has been - 100% - a political trial",Khalil al-Dulaimi,Saddam Hussein's lawyer
2006-12-26 03:10:56 · answer #1 · answered by Tinkerbell05 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Hague is protocol in which nobody gets punished. They discuss the case as long until the dictator dies of old age. In Iraq, people have to see the death of Saddam, otherwise hearing in the news is not enough. Saddam's trial is a PR thing....
2006-12-26 02:30:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
For a trial to be held in Hague, two States should agree to solve some issue (between them, and regarding only the two states). And the the one who is trialed is the State, never the individual, therefore it is a Court to solve issues of International Public Law (the law regarding sovereign states), not Human Rights (regarding the individuals).
Individuals are trialed by the International Criminal Court (or something like that) and the USA doesn´t recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC.
2006-12-26 02:32:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Some would consider The Hague the kangaroo court.
2006-12-26 02:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
1st, the international court of the hague is a joke itself. 2nd, the international court does not have the backing of Nato. 3rd, the international court has no jurisdiction over this matter. 4th, it is up o the Iraqi's to try Saddam, much in the same way that the Brits tried King Charles.
2006-12-26 02:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
think of Hitler or Stalin being surpassed over to a "Hague" court docket! What surpassed off to Mussolini in Italy could take place to evry bonafide dictator. i can't have faith that on one hand the E.U. condemns the united states of a/uk for invading Iraq, yet then on a similar time those E.U. governments desire to intrude with Iraqi justice!
2016-10-28 09:43:15 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two reasons. One, it enhances the charade that Iraq has a functioning, indigenous, sovreign government. Two, it guaranteed the verdict the Coalition of the Willing wanted. My opinion? Yes. But what other reason could there be? Amnesty International calls the trial flawed and unfair. Under the Geneva Conventions, Saddam is a POW and cannot even be put on trial until after hostilities stop.
2006-12-26 02:36:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Saddam was tried in his own country by his own people.
Just like Bill Clinton was would have been for obstruction of justice, and instead was disbarred. (He was even too sleazy for his fellow lawyers.)
The reason I bring Clinton up, is because I know you are trying to frame this question as Bush has something to do with Saddam's trial, and that somehow if Saddam would have had an International trial he would be innocent.
Am I warm?
2006-12-26 02:28:24 · answer #8 · answered by Albert H 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
He was tried for his crimes by his countrymen in his country. What makes you think it was a kangaroo court? The Hague doesn't use the death penalty.
2006-12-26 02:30:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Saddam was tried in an Iraqi court, not a kangaroo court...
2006-12-26 02:28:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋