'Soft on Saddam' Judge Removed

Joke of the world, the Americas Kangaroo Court in Iraq for the Sadam, frightened to have him tried in the Hague, to many little skeletons to come out. HmmmmmmTChris, TalkLeft

Responding to prosecutors' complaints that the chief judge was "soft on Saddam," Iraq's prime minister removed the judge from Saddam Hussein's trial. But wait, you say. What kind of democratic government allows the executive branch to control the judicial branch, to the point of removing a judge during a trial because prosecutors want a judge who will side with them more often? The kind that has emerged in Iraq (...) The judge who presided over Hussein's first trial resigned midway through the trial in response to complaints that he, too, was "soft on Saddam." American prosecutors must envy the power of the Iraqi government to toss out any judge who isn't sufficiently pro-prosecution...

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