I think you're thinking too much like a lawyer, and not enough like a politician.

You and I might not have any respect for Saddam Hussien, but right now he's not concerned at all with legal procedure or even getting a verdict. He's doing what he can to delegitimize the court to the arab street. He's going to do everything he can to Americanize it. The American invastion was not legitimate in the eyes of much of the world, including the arab street. This court that we've set up is already questionable to even many in Western Europe, not to mention the Middle East.

Saddam already knows he's going to die. All he's trying to do now is die a hero. It's the same idea they used in the war. They cannot win so they fight a bit and then melt into the woodwork, and shoot you in the back and plant bombs on the side of the road, it is what they can do, and so that is what they do. This is what he can do, and so, he does.

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