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Baghdad Blogger Salam Pax isn't worried about Saddam getting a fair trial:
--"He looked like a tramp...and for some reason you expected him to bite that soldier's finger a la Hanibal Lecter. But he just sat there...he sounded like he has totally lost it. I want a fully functioning Saddam who will sit on a chair in front of a TV camera for 10 hours everyday and tells us what exactly happened the last 30 years. I do not care about the fair trial thing Amnesty Int. is worried about and I don't really care much about the fact that the Iraqi judges might not be fully qualified, we all know he should rot in hell. but what I do care about is that he gets a public trial because I want to hear all the untold stories."
Frankly, I'm inclined to agree with Salam, that it's hard to be too impressed with ever-virtuous Amnesty International's call for Saddam to get POW status, and the Red Cross's demands that it get to visit Saddam in prison to assure themselves of his fair treatment. [And W&P actually started an Amnesty cell at Shawnee Mission East high school back in 1984, what a waste of youthful political activism]. Were they making nearly so much noise when Saddam was torturing and murdering tens of thousands of people? Not much more noise.