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Andy Borowitz: Kangaroo Selected as New Hussein JudgePosted on Sep 29, 2006Two weeks after the judge in Saddam Hussein’s trial for crimes against humanity was dismissed for displaying leniency toward the former Iraqi dictator, the proceedings became embroiled in controversy once again as legal experts questioned the selection of a kangaroo as the judge’s replacement. While the dismissal of the previous judge, Abdullah al Amiri, raised eyebrows in legal circles because it suggested to some that the Iraqi government was trying to predetermine the results of the trial, the selection of a kangaroo from the Sydney Zoo in Australia did little to allay those concerns. “The new Iraqi government is already facing an uphill struggle to gain any kind of credibility for the trial of Saddam Hussein,” said Hassan El-Medfaai, president of the Iraqi Bar Association. “It is hard to see how putting a kangaroo in charge helps achieve that goal.” The kangaroo, known as Annette during her tenure at the Sydney Zoo, received mixed reviews on her first day in the Baghdad courtroom where Mr. Hussein is being tried. After one of the former dictator’s trademark outbursts, the kangaroo appeared alarmed, jumped from the bench and had to be subdued with a tranquilizer dart before the proceedings could continue. Advertisement Elsewhere, a team of French doctors made history by performing surgery in zero gravity on an airplane, but were then arrested for bringing liquids and sharp objects onboard. Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of the new book “The Republican Playbook,” to be published in October. To find out more about Andy Borowitz and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Report thisBy Geronimo, October 2, 2006 at 6:40 pm #
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Based upon what’s happend the past quarter of a century, the kangaroo trial is standard procedure after our military conquers and occupies a nation. That’s what happened after the 1982 Grenada war, the l989 Panama war and now in Iraq. The Grenada kangaroo sent eighteen Grenadians to prison and cost U.S. taxpayers six million dollars. The Panama kangaroo trial of Manuel Noriega took place in Florida and was much more expensive, while who knows how much the ongoing kangaroo trial of Saddam Hussein is costing us Americans. Turns out, though, that the real cost of the kangaroo trial isn’t the dollars wasted, but the shame and infamy of it all. Still proud to be an American, everyone?
Report thisBy Bukko in Australia, September 30, 2006 at 4:45 am #
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My question is: Is this a Muslim kangaroo? And if so, is it Sunni or Shiite? You Northern Hemispheriacs might not realise it, but there are tens of thousands of immigrants from Lebanon, Turkey, Indonesia and other Muslim countries living in Australia. Nothing wrong with that, and also no worries that they might have converted some of the native wildlife to Islam.
But it’s important to know whether this Annette has been honest with the selection panel about her faith. I am suspicious that she is not what she purports. “Annette” is NOT a normal kanagroo name. “Winjarrump” “Kiri-Kiri” and of course “Skippy” I could believe. But if this Judge Kangaroo is dissembling about her name, what other motivations might she be hiding?!?
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