The Rush to Hang Saddam Hussein

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Author(s)	The New York Times editorial board
Source	The New York Times
Date	December 29, 2006
URL	http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/opinion/29fri1.htm
Quote	"A carefully conducted, scrupulously fair trial could have helped undo some of the damage inflicted by his rule. It could have set a precedent for the rule of law in a country scarred by decades of arbitrary vindictiveness. It could have fostered a new national unity in an Iraq long manipulated through its religious and ethnic divisions. It could have, but it didn’t."

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This item argues against the position Trial was fair on the topic Trial of Saddam Hussein.