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French Lawyers Defend SaddamThe French lawyer who defended Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and guerrilla Carlos the Jackal has confirmed he will defend Saddam Hussein.
Jacques Verge said Saddam's nephew had chosen him to represent the former Iraqi president.
Mr Verges, who is also defending former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, said he would lead Saddam's defence, supported by a dozen other French lawyers. How surprising. 
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And we should act surprised and shocked why, exactly?
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Isn't it bad form to yell I surrender and curl up in the fetal position in a court room?
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The sad part is that if history is any indication, the US will have to send a lawyer in to rescue the case!
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So if , say a Japaneese Lawyer were defending Sadaam, would that mean that the Japaneese were defending Sadaam? An American lawyer?? Samoan?
Since I hate abridged versions, here's a more compete article.
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By Noah Barkin
PARIS (Reuters) - The French lawyer known for defending Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and guerrilla Carlos the Jackal said Saturday that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s nephew had chosen him to represent the deposed Iraqi president.
Jacques Verges told Reuters in a telephone interview he had received a letter from Ali Barzan al-Tikriti, whose father Barzan al-Tikriti is Saddam's half-brother, asking him to defend the former Iraqi dictator, captured by U.S. forces in December.
The U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council in Baghdad is setting up a war crimes tribunal to try Saddam on charges which may include genocide and crimes against humanity.
Washington has said the 66-year-old Saddam, whose interrogation is being led by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) (CIA (news - web sites)), should be tried in Iraq (news - web sites).
Verges, who is also defending former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, said he had accepted the job of defending Saddam and suggested his strategy would focus on the role played by the United States and other countries in supporting the Iraqi leader in the 1980s.
"We know very well that the Anglo-Americans armed Saddam Hussein, that the chemical weapons were sold by the allies," Verges said in a telephone interview.
SIGHTS ON RUMSFELD
Washington helped Saddam obtain intelligence and military equipment and, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control document in the U.S. Senate record, Iraq also obtained from the United States biological agents that could have been turned into weapons.
The United States was at the time supporting Iraq in its war against the old U.S. foe Iran, at a time when Saddam used chemical weapons against Iranian forces and Iraqi Kurds.
Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the former Soviet Union also supplied Iraq with equipment, expertise and funding over the years.
The West's close military and commercial relationship with Saddam ended when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Verges singled out Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a key advocate of last year's U.S.-led war to oust Saddam, for his role 20 years ago as a special envoy of U.S. President Ronald Reagan (news - web sites).
He said that if a trial of Saddam took place, Rumsfeld would have to "take a seat next to the leader."
Verges decried U.S. treatment of Saddam since his capture and said he feared the former dictator could be killed before he had a chance to stand trial.
The United States declared Saddam a prisoner of war last month, meaning he has certain rights under the Geneva Convention on treatment of such detainees. But U.S. officials have said they do not rule out the possibility that the United States might re-evaluate that status in the future.
Verges has taken on tough cases before. Barbie, known as the "butcher of Lyon," was jailed for life in 1987 for crimes against humanity in Nazi-occupied France.
Carlos the Jackal, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, is serving a life sentence in France for a string of deadly attacks in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.
Charges against Saddam could cover his campaign against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, the use of chemical weapons on Iranian troops and Kurdish civilians, the crushing of Kurdish and Shi'ite Muslim uprisings in 1991 and the oppression of minority groups in the south and north of the country.
The United States and Britain cited Iraqi chemical and biological arms as their justification for invading the country last March. No such weapons have come to light since they toppled Saddam, despite intensive searches.
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no offense whomod but i think people quit reading your posts....
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Whomod....take the previous comments a little seriously, do you? Yes...you do. Thanks for the article, though. Didn't read it, but I may someday. Maybe. Or maybe not.
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hey, c'mon people! this is France's way of being a part of the war! you know Saddam's not gonna win. Saddam knows this. The French know this. This way France can say they had a part in Saddam's downfall while keeping their position of politically pussified.
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hey, c'mon people! this is France's way of being a part of the war! you know Saddam's not gonna win. Saddam knows this. The French know this. This way France can say they had a part in Saddam's downfall while keeping their position of politically pussified.
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no offense whomod but i think people quit reading your posts....
That's because the neocons in the White House have bullied anyone that dares question their imperialism! If anyone dares question them, they will labeled as traitors!
500+ dead for a lie, all so Bush and his Nazi oil buddies can destroy the Bill of Rights, and create a Christian theoracy that will doom us all!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
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no offense whomod but i think people quit reading your posts....
Just as long as you and G-Man continue to seethe over them, it's too much fun to stop.
BTW, where's Condi??
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I actually think Verges is a great choice to represent Saddam Hussein, merely because of how good a job he did of getting his other infamous clients off the hook. Klaus Barbie and Carlos The Jackal were convicted and sentenced to life in prison. If Verges's track record remians consistent, Saddam's chances of acquiatal are guaranteed to be zero.
Not that there's any chance of Saddam being acquitted anyway...
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no offense whomod but i think people quit reading your posts....
Just as long as you and G-Man continue to seethe over them, it's too much fun to stop.
I don't remember either bsams of the G-Man threatening to leave, spamming with images from Bush parody sites, or editing their messages to cover their "predictions" like your cowardly ass did.
I'm sure you were having fun when you did all of those things.
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no offense whomod but i think people quit reading your posts....
Yeah, "no offense" intended, I'm sure.
MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.
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Just as long as you and G-Man continue to seethe over them, it's too much fun to stop.
No offense, whomod, but neither your nor your posts are at all seethe-worthy.
You're less a challenge than a diversion...I come here, play around with you just to keep my skills sharp and then get back to debating professional rhetoricians.
If anything, sometimes I feel like Bugs Bunny having tricked Daffy Duck into screaming "Duck Season, FIRE!!!" for the fifiieth time.
Now run along and find some non-sequeiter articles and pretty pictures to post... 
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Just a little something to lighten the mood...
(Actually, I just thought it was funny and I was looking for an excuse to post it somewhere)
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"If Schumacher’s last effort was the final nail in the coffin then Year One would’ve been the crazy guy who stormed the graveyard, dug up the coffin and put a bullet through the franchise’s corpse just to make sure." -- From a review of Darren Aronofsky & Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One" script
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Here's how old I am:
I honestly remember when "Garfield" was this new, hip, edgy comic strip.
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What's the fuss about? If they're going to go through with a show trial, he's entitled to legal representation. Not that it'll do him any good.
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no offense whomod but i think people quit reading your posts....
Just as long as you and G-Man continue to seethe over them, it's too much fun to stop.
I don't remember either bsams of the G-Man threatening to leave, spamming with images from Bush parody sites, or editing their messages to cover their "predictions" like your cowardly ass did.
I'm sure you were having fun when you did all of those things.
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no offense whomod but i think people quit reading your posts....
Yeah, "no offense" intended, I'm sure.
animalman you sly minx!
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no offense whomod but i think people quit reading your posts....
Just as long as you and G-Man continue to seethe over them, it's too much fun to stop.
I don't remember either bsams of the G-Man threatening to leave, spamming with images from Bush parody sites, or editing their messages to cover their "predictions" like your cowardly ass did.
I'm sure you were having fun when you did all of those things.
Ha-ha
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What's the fuss about? If they're going to go through with a show trial, he's entitled to legal representation. Not that it'll do him any good.
It sure doesn't do much to help the reputation of the French, but yeah, I agree. Somebody's gotta do it.
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Seriously by law someone has to do it. I can't understand what his defense will be.
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The Matrix movie made him do it!
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The Matrix movie made him do it!
After watching the Matrix Reloaded I wanted to kill people.
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ZOD knows, ZOD knows!
If he says Bush made him do it and apologizes.
He'll be released by the end of the day. 
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How's this for a defense?
"It's my first day."
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Seriously by law someone has to do it. I can't understand what his defense will be.
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