Free Saddam to end woes in Iraq, lawyer tells Bush

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

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AMMAN (Reuters) - The United States should free Saddam Hussein if it wants to end its problems in Iraq and earn the friendship of Arabs, the former Iraqi president's lawyer wrote in a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush. The chief lawyer for Saddam at his trial for crimes against humanity in Baghdad told Bush that Iraqis who supported their former leader were waiting for a bold decision from the world's most powerful statesman to free him.

"I call on you (President Bush) to release Mr. President (Saddam) immediately to allow the Iraqis to decide his fate. Only then will you get out of your predicament in Iraq and truly become an advocate of justice," Khalil Dulaimi wrote in a letter obtained by Reuters.

Such a decision would prove to be the panacea that would end Washington's woes over Iraq, Dulaimi asserted.

"Your relations with Iraq will then be historic and you will win the favor of the Arabs and Muslims and the entire world," Dulaimi said, adding that it was the only way to spare Iraq from undergoing a bloody civil war.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20051229/ts_nm/saddam_bush_letter_dc_1

[ClintonTyree]

1. Yeah. that'll happen........

:eyes: Saddam is bush's trophy (beside Saddam's gun in his desk) and he's not likely to give him up. Being the spoiled, petulant brat that bush is, there's more of a chance that bush will raise taxes on the rich than release Saddam.
Good luck with that!

[Canadian_moderate]

2. As much as I was against the invasion of Iraq

I don't think that freeing Saddam is the right thing to do. He was responsible for many deaths and attrocities.

He may not have been a threat to Americans, Canadians or Europeans, but he was definitely a threat to many Iraqis. That said, the current chaos in Iraq and the fact that the country is so ethnically divided makes one understand why it took a ruthless authoritarian to keep the country together over the years. Pleas enote that I am in no way condoning his methods.

[madeline_con]

10. That's why the article said...

"... to allow the Iraqis to decide his fate."

It's like having someone from elsewhere come here and capture and try DUH-bya. Oh, wait....

[yourout]

3. The only way Saddam will be released is when.....

he's DEAD!

[stepnw1f]

9. Sort Of Like Our Military

They come home dead.

[robbedvoter]

4. Maybe with the right bond/campaign contribution - whatcha have?

And W gets to keep the revolver!

[MrPrax]

5. Sounds good to me...

Let the ICC pick him and give him a real trial...

In hindsight, his crimes pale next to what the US occupation has done to the Iraqi people--or weren't we suppose to notice that bit of hypocrisy.

[Olney Blue]

6. Send Karen Hughes in to negotiate a compromise.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Now THAT is the true joke of the day!

:rofl:

[DemonFighterLives]

8. How about we release dubya to the Iraqi's - er

No wait, we'll release dubby and saddam to the court in the Hague. Fair all around!
:think:

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

11. he SERIOUSLY needs a FAIR trial- that's what Democracy is SUPPOSED to be

not some Kangaroo Court and Execution to make Bush's balls feel warm.

[underpants]

12. pffft do you really think it matters?

Yeah yeah I know all trials should be fair and all that but I think they have the goods on him. Not just in the pre-WMD case that they picked to be first but in general. He is a mass murderer. He is guilty.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

15. you only know what you've read- we don't convict on hearsay in a Democracy

YET

[SomewhereOutThere424]

13. We sold Saddam the weapons he used to kill people

Give both bush and saddam to the iraqi people. BOTH are murderers of their nation.

I wonder if that'll ever come up in saddam's trial? Why the US funded his terrorism on his nation and neighboring nations? Nahh....

[genieroze]

14. Tell him not to hold his breath.