Could Saddam suffer the same fate... eventually?
Clearly the geopolitical gloves are coming off...along with the wheels on the west's efforts to dominate the middle east...?
Surely there are other ways to deal with former warlords, dictators and war criminals who are former heads of state...?
Perhaps they could be "detainted" as "booty" under the laws of war without need for a trial...?
The problem is that one man's war criminal is another man's "hero of the revolution" or "patriot"...very often the leadership of the losing side is put on trial as revenge, or for "show trial" purposes, or to humiliate an entire nation as we see in Iraq and Serbia today...
Just look at the trials of Milosevic and Saddam...THEY ARE A JOKE.
And everyone knows it...
As it chess...if you capture the "king"...the game is over! No more show trials...it demeans the concept of international law.
Of course exceptions could be made for "direct involvement" in criminal conspiracies...
But "just losing the war" should not be the sole reason for a political show trial.
The Hague has been a joke for sometime now...it may be time to go back to the drawing board on War Crimes trials of former heads of state.
P.S. And Dubya and Rummy should be all in favor of this! For obvious reasons...
