"Mr. Rumsfeld, when did Saddam Hussein become evil?"
In Bugliosi's recent book, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder," the former prosecutor excoriated the murder trial of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein. He specifically criticized the selectivity of murders for which the prosecution sought to try the defendant, restricting the scope to deaths of political opponents seeking to remove him from power.
There was a logical reason why this narrowing occurred, reducing the trial to a kangaroo court. Photographic evidence could have been introduced at a real trial with the objective of full disclosure within the framework of definitive prosecution.
A picture could have been introduced showing a smiling Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in his Baghdad presidential office.
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Saddam Hussein Trial: A Tragic Kangaroo Court
We now hear that in his new Dallas digs he has one framed souvenir that he treasures above all others. It is the glass-encased gun owned by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Bush continues to take pride that he "got a bad man" to use the phrase that Fox News trumpeted to its slavish media zombies.
The truth is far less pleasant and it was determined early on after Saddam Hussein's capture that the one thing that the Bush administration along with the New World Order command would not tolerate was a trial of the dictator that permitted a proper range of questioning along with subpoenas to United States government high command.
In one of the recently rare instances of the U.S. media furnishing information into international thought, and issues that were broadly discussed in Europe and throughout the Middle East as readily as such information was ignored on the American scene, "Sixty Minutes" in 2004 presented an informative interview with a prominent and highly controversial French attorney.
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Wolf Blitzer interview with Ramsey Clark
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