Iraqi Justice: Death to Anti-Secessionists

Iraqi Justice: Death to Anti-Secessionists

Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo July 1, 2004 08:34 AM

I just saw Peter Jennings report on Saddam Hussein's initial hearing before an Iraqi judge. Jennings listed the categories of charges that will be brought against the former dictator, which included his violent crushing of the Shiite rebellion after the first Gulf War. If found guilty of this he could get the death penalty.

That is, the Shiite's wanted to SECEDE from Hussein's regime. Hussein waged war against the entire population, not just combatants, killing thousands of civilians and destroying their towns. After that, the survivors were "reconstructed" under the iron fist of Hussein's dictatorship.

Maybe it's not too late after all for The War Crimes Trial of Abraham Lincoln. Unlike the Shiites, the South wanted to secede peacefully and did not want to wage war on the North. Lincoln pledged his undying support for Southern slavery in his first inaugural, where he also promised an invasion of any state that refused to collect the newly-doubled U.S. tariff rate. He kept his promise and commanded an army that killed some 300,000 fellow citizens who were in rebellion against his regime.