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[–] NedTaggart 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

How was it a lynching? He was in prison for 3 years, underwent a trial and was sentenced to death.

Now regardless what you think about the Trial process, the fairness of the process or what type of court it might have been, this was not a lynching. A lynching, by definition is an "Extrajudicial Punishment". This does not meet that criteria.

Words have meaning people. Using them incorrectly weakens your argument.

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[–] toats [S] ago 

I compared it to a lynching because the US was looking for blood. That they handed Saddam over to a court of law is hardly proof against it being a lynching because many things call into question the impartiality and legitimacy of the Iraqi Special Tribunal (kangaroo court).

Past lynchings have had the support of mock trials and kangaroo courts.

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[–] NedTaggart ago 

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

A lynching, by definition is extrajudicial punishment carried out by an informal group without due process. Again, you can say what you want, about the process, or the lead up to it, or who was really in charge, what type of marsupial it most closely resembeled or whatever, but it was not extrajudicial, and was not carried out by an informal group, and it was not carried out without due process, ergo, it was not a lynching.