What a price to pay for this guilty verdict.

[Zenlitened]

Was it really necessary to throw America's military might at a totally contained enemy? All to put one rotten bastard on trial?

Nearly 3,000 American servicemen and women dead, thousands gravely wounded. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed. A whole new generation of terrorists bred around the world. America's prestige in tatters, our leadership a thing of the past. Billions of dollars -- nearly half a Trillion! -- squandered.

If this is a victory, it has a bitter, bitter taste. :(

[jimshoes]

1. It's not so much about Sadaam being

found guilty, hell, there's 20 pissant dictators you could try and find guilty if you wanted. It's more about shrubbie making his oily friends wealthy beyond avarice to steal a line from a Star Trek movie.

[Vinca]

2. Exactly. Dictators are as common as cockroaches.

Hell, we've got one ourselves.

[HereSince1628]

Yes, Sa-damn was a bad man he tried to kill the Pappy.

You've left out the cost to American Democracy:

To fight this war, the US had to install a Unitary President and become a totalitarian state which has made obsolete and quaint the documents that established the Republic.

Who knows how long it will take to re-establish documents with similar promise.

[bullimiami]

3. is there any question about this having been orchestrated from the WH?

the verdict of the kangaroo court was guilty before the trial even started, and the sentence was always to be death.

[indepat]

4. 'puke hypocrisy, avarice and lust for total power knows no bounds: now on with

trials for other known war criminals.

[H2O Man]

5. I'm not sure that

hanging Saddam will move Iraq towards being a democratic state that brings stability to the Middle East.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. This timing of the "verdict" proves to the entire world that...

The US totally runs the show in Iraq, not the "New Iraqi Government."