Reply #28: He's talking about the rule of law and the values that carries, NOW going

[Gloria]

immediately to the IRAQ/Saddam situation!!

Listing 4 points he things that must be followed:

1. Held in Iraq and in public
2. Procedures...Internationally recognized standard procedures
UN, Arab League, EU, experts to craft the rules
International observers to observe as trial moves forward, but trial held by Iraqis in Iraq

3.Not a composite trial, but a parallel set of hearing in which all of the international evidence can be aired at the same time as the Iraqi trial....from the other groups like the Kurds. Evidence can be used in the Iraqi trial

4. Punishment...cannot take death penalty off the table. Has to be there for those responsible for genocide. But the question of the punishment is not for the international experts. There job is to make sure the trial is conducted (the right wya--my words).