What’s so shocking about the verdict being passed down on 5 Nov? That was announced, like, months ago! Must not have been paying attention or didn’t believe thir lying ears & eyes.

And they can’t believe that the judge wouldn’t allow the scope of trial to be widened to include US support for Iraq over the years? Hellooo? The trial is about whether Saddam commited genocide and murder, not some sort of US-style civil trial to figure out who had deep pockets and thus be made to pay.

And the Eurolanders are shocked about the death sentence? Whoopee!!! This, in a zone where Islamofascists commit honor killings and home-grown intifadas with impunity? Talk about just ‘lying back and enjoying it’. Just wait till the radicals make tip the scales enough to make Sharia the law of Euroland…the vaunted canals and streets would run red with daily executions.

In any case, it’d probably be a year before the appeal runs its course.

I do have a bone to pick with you, however. You don’t have Presidential candidate John Cox listed on the list of GOP hopefuls. Other than Duncan Hunter, Cox is the only candidate to officially declare. He’s in Iowa working hard and already has a website (cox2008.com). He appears to be a longshot, but two years is an eternity in politics. Thanks.

it dawned on me, how close we were to electing our own version of borat-jfk.

I can only imagine the mangled speech he would give,

something like-’no one is happy with this verdict…’.

Bush is cricitcized for his inability to use the english language, but ‘yale’s smarter alum’ is even more of a liability.