Justice delayed is justice denied. Gladstone
The trial of Saddam Hussein on charges he ordered hundreds of innocent people killed in revenge for an assassination attempt has come to its predictable conclusion: guilty. What are the odds that after so many months, the verdict would be delivered on the weekend before a midterm US election? Another time, it might have been thought mere coincidence. With the gang squatting in the White House, what once might have been considered cynicism is now realism.
These predictable verdicts are only the gloss on Hussein's crimes. Prosecution lawyers are not permitted to investigate American culpability in providing Hussein with weapons, satellite imagery, and other intelligence for use against Iran and misuse against internal enemies. Defense lawyers are often simply killed. This is a sad example of American justice in Babylon, the land of Hammurabi, who defined justice for millennia. The Bush League rewrite of Hammurabi would be "innocent until suspected".
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