mach - There are plenty of others that deserve to join him in both the East and West.
Bush 1 & 2 and Blair certainly have killed more Iraqis than Hussein ever did.
Finally the media is well controlled and will not say anything ontoward.
This was the same media that repeated the Govt. line on supposed WMDs.
Media in times of war is just a branch of the military for any nation so it is to be expected IMO.
Anyway you can be sure that in 20 years time our children will be taught that the trial was all Iraqi and there will be no mention of the fact that all of the evidence that was presented and reviewed was done so by the Americans and the Judges and Lawyers were just a veneer to make it look Iraqi and no mention that 3 of his lawyers were executed by the puppet state.
Of course justice was not served. Saddam's trials have proved to be the worst form of victors' injustice, where Al-Malki -- whose Dawa party had been behind the Dujail assassination attempt -- was trying the man whom he failed to assassinate during wartime when the man was the constitutional president of his country and where Bush, the leader of the occupying power, was trying the legitimate leader of the occupied country.
All evidence confirm Saddam trials are American in all except for conducting the proceedings in Arabic instead of English by Iraqis instead of Americans, which was the only logical option to convey the American message to Iraqis who do not understand English, thus turning the tribunal into another U.S. propaganda outlet to support the Voice of America and Al-Hurra satellite TV channel.
The "Iraqi Governing Council" the occupiers installed immediately after the invasion in 2003 established the "Iraqi Higher Criminal Court" with the permission of U.S. ruler Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority on Dec. 13, 2003, three days before Saddam Hussein's capture.
Scott Horton, chair of the International Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, said: "This entire process from beginning to end is being closely superintended by the United States," he told IPS. "This whole process is funded by a 138-million-dollar grant from Congress and a large staff of people working out of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad called the 'Regimes Crime Unit'."
Horton said Washington has especially tight control over the tribunal's schedule: "Access to the courtroom is controlled by the Americans, security is controlled by the Americans, and the Americans have custody over the defendants who must be produced before the trial can go forward, so whether they have the trial on day x or day y depends on the Americans giving their okay," he said.
The U.S. and Britain selected the judges, who were sent to London for training; "rehearsals" were staged in Italy and the Netherlands. Any judges who showed signs of impartiality were dismissed. Three defense lawyers and one witness were kidnapped and executed during this farce of a tribunal, held deep in Baghdad's Green Zone behind bulletproof barriers and under armed guard. (David Walsh, World Socialist Web Site, 7 November 2006)
