Are we indicting the new Iraqi gummit as puppets then? I confess I've cared a lot more in recent months about more personal travails then Hussein's trial - necessary as it was - so I don't really have the scoop on the ins-and -outs of it.

I don't understand where the "hurry up" thing came from - is that written into their law now? I agree that the Kurds deserve all the focus on their plight under his rule that they had coming - and this trial had been such a circus it sounds like. However, any trial he got was better than many would have given him.