with all the hype of saddam killing thousands of iraqi's why was he only convicted of 245 murders .
there was a study in america that stated the iranians actually did the gassing of the kurds and that saddam and his henchmen only used mustard gas .
who is right and who is wrong?
2006-12-30 22:38:12 · 17 answers · asked by demoman 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
The answer is:
If Saddam had ordered these weapons to be used, the question of where he got them might come up.
Not a question the US wants asked or investigated on the world stage.
So have a quick trial, and quicker execution for charges in a revenge killing for a failed assassination attempt. No appeal.
One less possible embarrassment. All US dealings with Saddam, or his sons, has been forever masked.
Now it is all just conspiracy theories.
End the illegal occupation of IRAQ
BRING HOME ALL OF OUR TROOPS NOW!!!
2006-12-30 22:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by Jack C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The trial by western standards was unfair..the longer they dragged out criminal proceedings the worse it looked. The opportunity to demonstrate the 'democratic (American)legal system' to the Muslim world was lost. For their own reasons the Iraqi court and the Iraqi government with American ideology mixed in decided to end this before it became more of a circus than it was already.
And of course..........since the Iraqi government and the American military cannot control the country they had to prove to someone - anyone - that they had some power over something - so they killed a man.
2006-12-31 00:10:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was enough to hang him for. Apparently Iraqi law prohibits the execution of anyone over seventy years old. Hussein was sixty nine (does anyone know where I can get a source for this) and would turn seventy early next year.
To try him for every death would take years, maybe decades. You can forget capital punishment, he could have very well died of old age before the trials were done.
2006-12-30 22:49:23 · answer #3 · answered by mickingundagai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ones he was convicted on he was shown to have been present for. The others he wasnt.
It was easier to build a case on these.
The punishment wasnt going to change if he was convicted of 245 or convicted on thousands!
2006-12-30 22:42:11 · answer #4 · answered by rodandalisonthompson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out some history and find most of esteemed and highly regarded people have made some horrible choices and it is only a matter of vested interest and expedience that rules the day
2006-12-30 22:53:24 · answer #5 · answered by william john l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've got faith the professional (and by using professional, I mean "in accordance to LIBS") bodycount is that Saddam killed 24 human beings (see, something died of organic motives; they only occurred to be present technique torture or in reformatory on the time), and GWB has killed nicely over seventy 4 BILLION Iraqis - through fact we would desire to count selection each and every of the destiny generations, each and every of the aptitude marriages, each and every of the human beings at abode interior the U. S. staring at on television, and - nicely, each and every person interior the international instances 10.
2016-12-11 19:44:13 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if he was found not guilty of these then they would have brought up other cases, until they found him guilty of some crime. They do the same with serial killers.
2006-12-30 22:45:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if he won the case, they had more deaths to charge him with.
2006-12-30 22:41:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was tried for just one incident not all of them.
2006-12-30 22:46:05 · answer #9 · answered by netnazivictim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
\He wasn't tried for everything. Some people want to try him for more crimes even though he's dead.
2006-12-30 22:44:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋