http://phillyist.com/2007/01/02/reflections_on.php All comments for Reflections On That Other Thing That Happened This Weekend en-us 2009 MikeMuller Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:15:29 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss redmullersox@yahoo.com redmullersox@yahoo.com 60 http://phillyist.com/2007/01/02/reflections_on.php#comment-879773 http://phillyist.com/2007/01/02/reflections_on.php#comment-879773 Comments Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:40:29 -0500 <p>Um Nick, it was not a kangaroo court. While everything that could go wrong did go wrong during the course of the trial (including the deaths of tribunal employees too, don't forget), the verdict was well reasoned and acknowledged the tribunal's faults. He was killed because of the evidence against him. While I support our Republican Jillian, I'm a Dem who just happens to think killing dictators is good for the environment. (And I'm not pro-death penalty otherwise -- the state has no business killing citizens.) Regardless of what you might think of the war (and we probably agree) Hussein had it coming.</p> http://phillyist.com/2007/01/02/reflections_on.php#comment-871327 http://phillyist.com/2007/01/02/reflections_on.php#comment-871327 Comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:13:20 -0500 <p>Unfortunately, he was sentenced not long after three of his defense attorneys were murdered, one after another, in cold blood. Our kids are dying over there to establish rule of law. Shouldn't we be setting an example by not allowing this sort of bullshit to affect due process?</p>