30 July, 2007

Iraqi kangaroo courts

The Americans and the Iraqi government have turned to an unusual measure to help implant the rule of law: they have erected a legal Green Zone in Baghdad, a heavily fortified compound (The Rule of Law Complex) to shelter judges and their families and secure the trials of suspects.

It is common practice that witnesses statements,who are rounded up by "investigators" are entered in a file that only the judges are allowed to read. The evidence in the files are what persuades the judges to convict.

So much for "justice" and the "rule of law" That's the way it would be here if the neocon republicans had their way.

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