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...SADDAM HUSSEIN may be suffering withdrawal from the giddy rush of being dictator of Iraq. As his trial resumed last week, he warned the judges of retribution and told them to "go to hell." After witnesses testified about torture under his rule, he said he and his co-defendants were being treated inhumanely by not being allowed to shower, exercise or smoke. "This," Saddam declared, "is terrorism." Finally, he said he wouldn't "come to an unjust court." The next day, he did not show up. But it's not his Iraq anymore: the trial went...
...Middle East is inherently unstable. An American pullout from Iraq would increase its instability. But so would a continued American presence there. Sending yet more troops to Iraq--if there were more troops to send--would only make things worse. We are seeing in retrospect that Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, crippled and contained in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, was perhaps the best of many bad scenarios. As for the future, we can pull out American troops and watch things disintegrate, or we can keep our forces in Iraq and watch things disintegrate. The only benefit...
...just execute us and get this over with?" BARAZAN IBRAHIM, Saddam Hussein's half-brother, questioning the validity of the former Iraqi leader's trial...
...secretly abducted from his home in the middle of the night, then severely beaten, tortured, suffocated and killed. Aren't those the exact actions our government despised and denounced during the regime of Saddam Hussein? Didn't our President vow to free the Iraqi people from that kind of terrorism? But our own government condones and promotes the use of terrorist tactics, torture and murder when they suit its purpose. I pray we never again allow a President to hold office who considers the physical, spiritual, emotional and psychological destruction of another person to be just and right. Paul...
...Were Saddam's torture chambers worse than ours? The Iraqis must be longing for the good old days before their country was destroyed, their mosques were blown up and thousands of their countrymen were slaughtered. When will our current Administration be held accountable for those atrocities? Edan Milton Hughes San Francisco...