The court was created by the US, the judges appointed by the US, it's financed by the US, and it's thrown out the Iraqi constitution.
So to say Saddam is being tried in an Iraqi court is a stretch of the imagination.

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"I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember --I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?"
-- George W. Bush, asked if the tide is turning in Iraq