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so what is at stake in the trial? a show trial to enable an execution? then why bother? and how will that function to legitimate the existing regime? why would it not show that the new regime has no respect for law, is arbitrary--why would it not reinforce the suspicions already floating around the world that the new regime is a puppet of the americans, and even follows the bush administration in its contempt for international law/legal institutions?
like it or not, folks, you are not dealing with individuals in some western film--you are dealing with matters of state, matters of law---there **are** rules, particularly when it comes not to committing a "crime" but determining guilt or innocence.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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