They make a perfect couple

How can they have a respectable show trial if the defendant keeps defending himself so well? This is a classic and irrefutable response.

Tags

More like this

indeed, but special pleading on the part of the defendant, regardless of how eloquent, rarely influences judges.

lalalala...

french I took...

(possibly the most embarrasing moment in US/France relations?)

As the Soviets taught us, it wouldn't be a real show trial unless a founding member of the party was a defendant.

I thought science guys could spot fallacies a mile away. He's just naming names to save his hide. First things first: Clarke, then the entire Bush administration.