Saddam is to hang. That's just been spoken by the judge but it certainly is not news. We all knew he was going to be hanged a year ago when we found out that was how they were going to kill him. Few tears will be shed at his death. My own feeling about the death penalty is that it is never justified, but of course that doesn't matter here. Neither does the fact that history will hold the entire mess to be a kangaroo-court performance. To have held the trial in the middle of a civil war, to have had numerous defense lawyers quit - 2 of them were shot dead, to have had judges removed and replaced, witnesses interviewed in secrecy and . . . well, there's just too many irregularities to try to mention even most of them.
The ICC was available for the job and would have done humanity proud if it that had this chance. But Bush hates the ICC even more than he hates Saddam. Besides, if the ICC had conducted the trial its verdict would not have been announced to coincide with an election in the United States that is of great importance to George Bush.
© John Womack, 2006. All rights reserved.
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