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The trial of Saddam Hussein and the coming trials of George W. Bush and Anthony Charles Lynton Blair

The Business of Emotions Blog

You need moral as well as legal authority to hang someone and this court had neither.

It was not only Saddam Hussein who was on trial, it was also the morality which propelled the invasion and motivated the behaviour and actions of the occupying forces.

It too is guilty.

To be hung is relatively quick and clean. What awaits this morality and its agents is much more unpleasant. More...