The court is dysfunctional and highly prejudiced. |
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. |
The law requires that the court allow more time. |
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. |
The number of deaths have increased every year, |
The statutes of the high court in Iraq requires a public hearing but he (the presiding judge) arbitrarily cut it off so that you the press and the rest of the world could not see what he said. |
The trial has never been on track. |
The violence is ever present and widespread, people so desperate. The power, the political interests in it, the omnipresence of the United States behind every door, plus soldiers on the streets. There are real questions whether you can have a real trial. |
The whole environment in the country is so violent and threatening it's impossible for it to function. |
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals |
There are many problems with the legality of the court. The United States created the court. The United States spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the court. |
There is not a person who feels secure. It's impossible to hold a fair trial in such a climate ... A trial is supposed to be a rational process. Fear is the ultimate irrationality. How do you function in fear? |
There is virtually no protection for the nine Iraqi lawyers and their families who are heroically here to defend truth and justice. |
There will be motions made in court to enlist its support for a thorough investigation. It was selective violence calculated to destroy the ability of the defense to present its defense, |
There's too much violence in the country, there's too much division and too much pressure on the court. The project ought to be abandoned. It was a creature of the United States in the first place. |