Summary
IT MUST have seemed like a good idea at the time putting Saddam Hussein on trial. But any more performances like last week will soon have them bringing what was intended to be an extended run to a premature close.
Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed the elephant that's not sitting in the corner of the court. Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran his biggest crime of all has somehow failed to make it into the indictment. This was an unprovoked attack on his sovereign neighbour just like the one on Kuwait, which does form one of the charges.See the full content of this document
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War Crime Far Too Big to Mention
The war with Iran lasted eight years, killed a million people on either side, saw the use of poison gas on Kurds at Halabja in the Anfal campaign and the wiping out of the Barzani clan leadership (all three of which are among the charges) and brought First World War-sty...
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