Right, this is getting way too intricately into inernational law and jurisdiction and its way over my head.

I think Saddam is a vicious individual who murdered millions of innocent people, he discriminated against people on basis of religion, for being a certain gender, for wanting to speak out, vote and even those who had nothing to do with him in forign states.

He ran a brutal regime, he deserves everything he has coming to him and i'll be glad once he's executed, i've supported the war from day 1 and continue to do so, proudly.

In this instance even if the courts weren't valid i'd still like to see him die to be honest but this issue maybe raised the question of laws against other foreign states, rogue dictators and so on as to whether crimes they commit against their own people can be prosecuted against them by international courts or their own country setting up courts but implmenting the laws retro-actively.

The sonner Saddam dies the better.