The proposed execution of Saddam is not supported
around the middle east probably on the grounds that if you
can legally execute one Arab leader whom the US doesn't "like..."
What's to stop even more leaders from making it on the
American hit list...
Or, if insurgents and radicals feel that they "don't like" a certain
leader...then maybe they have the right of execution
against that leader too...
The point? Once you start executing the leadership you open
a Pandora's Box of possible Chaos...
Saddam will probably have one of those "Slobo Heart Attacks" soon...
Or maybe a Macho Suicide...?
Because a public hanging would not be a good result.
It would smack of a US supported Shia revenge killing...
And as they say the gates of Hell would
open and Chaos would engulf the entire region.
...No Arab leader would be safe.
Regicides are an extreme measure, and they usually have very bad endings...