As much as I dislike Bush, I don't know that I would want to see him removed, tried and punished if the price was no running water, no sewer, and no electricity and random killing of an equal proportion of Americans as the the 600,000 Iraqis that have been killed.
And of course, Bush's goal was not to liberate the people but liberate the oil for his cronies, and give the Iraqis a semblance of democracy to pacify Americans and Iraqis (even though he over-rules their parliament whenever they make the "wrong" decision).
But for Iraqis living in a country entrenched in civil strife and a fearsome insurgency, the scheduled verdict has the feeling of a tarnished moment.
Falah Hassan Mohammed, who runs a hardware store in Baghdad, recalled being overwhelmed with joy when the former dictator was pulled from an underground hiding spot in December 2003.
Mohammed, 51, long resented Hussein and blamed him for his years as a prisoner of war during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.
But now, Mohammed said, he feels deeply conflicted.
"I hate Saddam Hussein, and I hope they will execute him," he said. "But there is no doubt that we were better with Saddam than we are in this current situation."http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-061105saddam-story,1,323460,print.story?coll=chi-news-hed(last paragraph of article)