blevkog: Where is the crime?

That ol' Capatain Ed at the Quarters has got his blinders half-on again. Sigh. This time he's discussing the Saddam Hussein trial, specifically the (I think) apt comparisons between the Dujail massacre with the methods used by the Nazis in the forties.

He quotes, at greater length than I will, the Wall Street Journal coverage of the events of the trial, including Hussein's reaction to the discussion of the massacre and his role:

Last week, Saddam acknowledged in court that he had ordered the summary trial that led to the execution of the villagers and the destruction of their farmland. "Where is the crime?" he asked, claiming that as president of Iraq all his actions were lawful. Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trial famously adopted a similar defense.

Indeed, Saddam, where is the crime. You make the laws, therefore whatever you do must be within them.

Being unable to criticize the current Administration, naturally Ed is unable to draw some other eerie parallels with Nazi Germany in the forties. Hmmm, let's make a list, shall we?