Saddam would not answer the questions ask of him instead he was giving a political speech. The judge had every right to close the trial until Saddamn finished. If in Saddam's evil reign ANYONE would have tried to do such a thing...they'd have been gunned down.
Once, Saddam got off his soap box the trial was re-opened. You might take the time to read the full transcript of what took place.
Here's some justice for ya'll defenders of Saddam. Put him back in power, all you defenders of Saddam get to live under his rule. Now that's justice.
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NO MATTER WHAT THIS TRIAL NEEDS TO BE MADE OPEN TO THE
: PUBLIC... IT KEEPS TRIALS MORE FAIR (IF THERE EVEN IS SUCH
: A THING AS FAIR JUSTICE ANYMORE)...
: OUTBURST OR NOT - THE JUDGE CLOSEDTHE DOORS TO THE PUBLIC
: EYE-THAT MAKES THINGS SMELL IN DENMARK.
: ** ALSO- THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT CHARGING SADDAMS *LAWYERS*
: $12,000 PER DAY JUST TO GET TO AND FROM THE AIRPORT TO THE
: COURTHOUSE ...AND GIVING THEM A VERY DIFFICULT TIME EVEN
: ENTERING AND LEAVING IRAQ IS A TACTIC THAT APPEARSTO ONLY
: SERVES TO TRY TO PREVENT SADDAM FROM COUNSEL AND SERVES TO
: HINDER PROPER REPRESENTATION MAKING IT RATHER UNFAIR NOT
: ...INCLUSIVE OF ANY TESTIMONY ETC.
: ______________
: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Saddam Hussein, testifying for the
: first time in his trial, called on Iraqis to stop killing
: each other and instead fight U.S. troops. The judge angrily
: reprimanded him for making a political speech and ordered
: the public to leave the courtroom.
: In a shouting match, chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman told
: Saddam, "You used to be a head of state. You are a
: defendant now."
: Saddam, dressed in a black suit and wearing large reading
: glasses, repeatedly brushed off the judge's demands that he
: address the charges against him -- the killing of 148
: Shiites and the imprisonment and torture of others during a
: crackdown in the 1980s.
: Instead, he read from a prepared text, addressing the
: "great Iraqi people" -- a phrase he often used in
: his presidential speeches -- and said he was
: "pained" by the recent wave of Sunni-Shiite
: violence.
: http://www.courttv.com/trials/saddam/031506_ap.html
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