[Sethomas]

I will concede that Saddam is a special exception because this obviously had nothing to do with justice and everything to do with politics. Anyone who thinks that doing any amount of suffering on one person who happened to be at the top of command for such a number of atrocities does anything similar to "justice" is a moron. The only "justice" possible is to finally learn to take seriously all those "Nie Wieder, Jamais Encore, Never Again..." plaques at the holocaust sites. It does ring an acrid taste when the future historian will see the first major act of an independent state being the execution of a former executioner. Kevin mentioned parallels, anyone consider Robespierre?