  The spin started this morning. Now they are trying to spin Saddam's comments off as a gimmick to help George W. Bush lose this election! That's insane, media speculation at best. However it is how they have dressed it up and fed it to the American people. Expect a lot more of it. The effect of a barrage of this will be to weaken the American people to caring what is done to him.
In the end, they will accept any injustice done to him or any in relations to him. I don't like what he's supposedly done to his people, but who's to say he's not the dupe (far flung stretch of imagination there). We will never really know for sure if there is not a fair trial. And there's more at stake than just that. If this gets treated the way I feel it is going to, then it has heavy implications for the future of justice in all of Iraq; for every individual living in Iraq who could or could not be guilty of something. The problem starts with the idea of the tribunal. This is a trial by judges with no jury. This tribunal is set up much like the French system: you have a separate judge that strictly gathers evidence to prove the guilt, the other judges judge on the matter, and the defendants attorney has the burden of proof towards his innocence. Now many people have disagreed with this, but to me it is all semantics. Here's the truth about it. This court system means proven guilty, until proven innocent. Now the point that people say is that you have the judge that gathers the proof for guilt and that makes it fair. However, I would like those people to notice that the Judge's word bears the authority of being right, always! His proof cannot be questioned except in reference of proof that the Defendant is innocent. So you really have to struggle against the Judges proof to even get a chance.
what you have is an unbalanced trial; the judge of evidence having the controlling hand already declaring the defendants guilt, unquestionably. In America, a trial by jury, with a prosecutor and a defendant, on equal ground, having to both bear the burden of proof, is an equal, fair, and just trial. Out forefathers were tired of lopsided trials. To many innocents lives were ruined from tribunals. Freedom was the casualty of such trials. That is why we have an un-infringe-able right to Habeus Corpus and trial by jury.
In other words, it's not Saddam's fate that is at stake here; it is Iraq's freedom which is being threatened by the so called liberators of the Iraqis. Stupid insurgents, hold still while we finish forging another link to your countries chain! 
