Justice for Saddam?

So Saddam’s sentencing did not have anything to do with the US mid-term elections! What absolute utter crap. Do those morons at the White House believe we were all born yesterday? They would have us believe that the “independent” judges who handed out the verdict had nothing to do with US elections. It just so happens that W convieniently uses the verdict in his desperate attempts to tout his administrations “achievements”.
Which brings us to the fact that Saddam has been sentenced to hang. The ousted dictator, true to form, would prefer to face a firing squad. Serves him well. OK, lets get one thing straight: Saddam is no angel. He ruthlessly ruled Iraq for two decades with help from his minority sect and quashed all opposition to him. Shias and Kurds are celebrating the death sentence while Sunnis are smarting and vowing bloody revenge. BUT, lets also not forget that Saddam was a SECULAR leader who despised al-qaida type loonies and kept Iraq free of them. The feeling was mutual. And, he posed no threat to the US because he had no weapons of mass destruction.
Which brings us to the question: What to make of this verdict. Absolute roobish (thanks boycott). The bloody regime whose invasion of Iraq has led to more Iraqi deaths (6,00,000 according to Lancet magazine) than during the Saddam years has the gall to try Saddam and call it a great victory for democracy!!!
Will the Saddam verdict make things any better for Iraqis. Unlikely. In fact it just might exacerbate tensions as the Ba’ath party has vowed to attack the green zone and other Iraqis. With the American casualty rate nudging the 3000 mark this just might be the worst news they have heard this month. In any case the American morons have been so incompetent that Saddam, from the confines of his cell, appealed to his Iraqi compatriots for calm! When Saddam pleads for peace you know things have hit rock bottom.
It would have been a better idea if Saddam had been handed over to the international Court. Anyway, Saddam made an absolute pigs breakfast of his trial: He harangued the judge at every turn and generally screamed his way through the trial. Apparently at one point even the chief prosecutor got unnerved. Jolly good show, that.
I wonder when Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and that whole company will be brought before a court and tried for crimes against humanity. Bush can plead “no brainer”. In his case it will be literally true too.