Actually, Saddam is right ~ This trial is ' pure theater ' meant only for charley six-pack and fox news network viewers . A distraction to hide the growing Iraqi resistance .
As usual ,The Guardian UK , see's the obvious and George Galloway labels it A SHOW TRIAL and " a distraction tactic that will do nothing to stop the growing Iraqi resistance . "
Allen L Roland
A show trial
Thursday July 1, 2004 / The Guardian
Today is the start of a show trial. It's intended to deflect attention from the absolute failure of the occupation to either get the electricity and water back on, still less to subdue the Iraqi resistance - which is giving them a bloody good hiding all over the country. I think it will fail in that regard, just as the capture of Saddam Hussein last December failed.
The idea in the media was that this was the beginning of the end of the problem in Iraq. I said at the time that the Iraqi resistance are not fighting for Saddam, so his capture will make absolutely no difference. Insofar as it did make a difference, it probably made the resistance stronger, because people who didn't like Saddam but hated the occupation could safely join the resistance knowing that Saddam was now behind bars and never likely to reappear. And the same is true of this trial.
So it may provide some rapture for Bush and Blair for a day or two, but I predict that it will make absolutely no difference to the level of resistance being offered in Iraq and it certainly won't butter any parsnips with the ordinary people who don't even have light, or fridges, or air conditioning in 130-140 degrees Fahrenheit.
The resistance is fighting the foreign occupier. They're not fighting for Saddam, so it follows that they have no interest one way or another in what happens to him. What they're interested in doing is driving foreign armies out of their country, and ending the process by which their country has been turned into a giant salami and sliced up by George Bush's corporate friends in direct proportion to the donations they make to his re-election campaign. That's what they are doing, and if anything that will intensify.
It's a rigged trial being carried out by criminals. These people who are described as the "government" of Iraq are no such thing, and it follows that any judge they appoint is entirely illegitimate. These people are hand-picked puppets, stooges of the American occupation. Their judges are the puppets' puppets, the stooge's stooge. So there can be little doubt that it will be exactly what the Americans have decided it will be. But I predict that, alive or dead, the issue of Saddam will make absolutely no difference to the level of resistance or the eventual outcome of the struggle.
The dog that did not bark is the Iraqi invasion of Iran, with which - lo and behold - Saddam is not to be charged. Why? Because he invaded Iran at the behest of the US and Britain. He fought the Iranian army and attacked the Iranian cities - and the civilians within them - with weapons given to him by Britain and America and with maps supplied personally by Donald Rumsfeld. The trial could scarcely cover the invasion of a foreign country by Iraq in which a million people died when we would have to be indicted as co-conspirators.
· George Galloway is Respect MP for Glasgow Kelvin
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