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Originally posted by johnny:
I never give up. 
You think they deserve a fair trial, i don't. That's all.
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I think that the
victims and their families deserved the closure that a fair and open trial would have brought. I think that the people of Iraq had the right to prosecute and sentence the people that had brutalised them for so many years and that this right was taken away from them.
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Originally posted by johnny:
capturing them would just involved them staying in nice, comfortable cells while celebrity lawyers fought to represent them.
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Attalus,
The death penalty has always been the sentence for murderers in Iraq - and one thing I can assure you of is that any middle-eastern cell would make the average Western cell look like a stay in a luxury hotel. Furthermore, should the new government introduce a form of Shariah law, the application of the death sentence could be more brutal and slow (for example stoning to death) than anything that the US military could dream up!
For reasons of domestic political gain:
the evil duo won quick and painless deaths,
Bush won domestic propaganda points,
- while the victims families and an entire nation ended up being the losers, once more. Some victory.