Well done, chaps. You got him. (My cursory reading seems to indicate that the X-Men were involved in some way.)
What to do with him? Well, the vast majority of his crimes were against the Iraqi people, so it seems only just that they be allowed to try him. And while I don't approve of capital punishment, I'm not going to shed any tears on his behalf should his erstwhile victims decide to get medieval on his ass.
Posted to The Big Room by Simon Brunning at December 15, 2003 01:36 PMBy showing Saddam on television the US can no longer hold him as a PoW, unless they care little for the Geneva Convention. Hmmm.
Posted by: Paul on December 15, 2003 02:08 PMThe US, take notice of The Geneva Convention? Bwahahahahahaha!
Posted by: Simon Brunning on December 15, 2003 02:14 PMActually, according to the BBC:
Mr Rumsfeld said that Saddam Hussein was being accorded the privileges of a prisoner-of-war under the Geneva Convention although America was "not defining him as such".
Also, The Geneva Convention stipulates that prisoners must be protected from "public curiosity". The US might argue that a one-off film doesn't breach this. Also, they might argue that there was a need to demonstrate to the World, and to Iraqis in particular, that they really had him, and that this might prevent some bloodshed. I don't know how this would stand legally, but it would make some sense to me.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on December 15, 2003 02:21 PM