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A brutal murder: Krishna Iyer

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KOCHI: The former Supreme Court judge, V.R. Krishna Iyer, has condemned the hanging of the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein.

In a statement, he said: "I respect the great American people but detest President Bush the bully. Iraq is a sovereign country. No other country can invade a sovereign nation under International Law except when international sanctions approved by the United Nations are permitted. President Bush violated international law when he militarily attacked Iraq for no reason except for freebooting and plundering its oil resources. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed by the American Military. This is atrocious. Saddam Hussein was the President of Iraq. He has perhaps committed crimes as President. It is for the people of Iraq to overthrow him, or remove his rule and not for America or its terrible President. A court trial was gone through. I regard it a farce. The death sentence was foregone since Bush wished it. The sentence by a counterfeit court cannot carry conviction especially because President Bush managed it all. Saddam Hussein's hanging is a brutal murder for which history will hold Bush guilty."

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