Al-Maliki's comments about punishing the guy who took the unauthorized video were rather curious (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/09/maliki.hussein/index.html). He believed that taking the video was illegal but remained astonishingly quiet about all the shouting and dancing that went along.
Also Blair commented that, "the crimes that Saddam committed doesn't excuse the manner of his execution, and the manner of the execution doesn't excuse the crimes. Now I think that is a perfectly sensible position that most people would reasonably accept." Now that Saddam has not been excused how about not excusing the misbehaviors of those at the execution and punishing them (and I don't mean the guy with the phone).
The militias on which Al-Maliki's government rests have committed crimes against humanity but he has not put any of their leaders on trial. Infact when the U.S. Army at one point tried to go after the Mehdi Army they were dissuaded from doing so.
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