Light touch paper and withdraw to a safe distance?

Mark · 11-01-2007, 19:53

For everyone else, The Hague would have been ideal, even preferred, but the Iraqis would never have accepted an independent location, just as now they're not accepting the presence of the coalition (well, that's one way of putting it anyway). Their country, their rules, their way.

The ideal compromise might have been to have a Hague-style trial run by the Iraqis, but I just don't see that would ever have been possible - there's too much hostility, on both sides.

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Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	For everyone else, The Hague would have been ideal, even preferred, but the Iraqis would never have accepted an independent location, just as now they're not accepting the presence of the coalition (well, that's one way of putting it anyway). Their country, their rules, their way. The ideal compromise might have been to have a Hague-style trial run by the Iraqis, but I just don't see that would ever have been possible - there's too much hostility, on both sides.