Saddam Hussein is a dangerous man. At least, he’s dangerous to all those people who, over the years, collaborated with him and excused the criminal behaviour now universally condemned. A Saddam trial could bring up a lot of names and make a lot of top US, French, German, Russian,, etc. public figures quite nervous. Guys like Saddam don’t survive as long as he did without help.

On another matter, I can’t believe how the capture of Saddam has been over-hyped. Universally described as “dramatic,” it really was nothing more than helping an old man out of a hole in the ground. The 750k was undoubtedly road money. And we are expected to believe he was orchestrating and funding a national insurgency from the corner of a sheep pasture? Please. That Bush is getting a boost from this is truly a sign of how desperate Americans are for any good news. Fact is, despite all thier high-tech and jack-boot techniques, it took them nine months to find him, and he was right there all along, in a hut, eating mars bars. Pathetic.