It's not our fault that Saddam Hussain didn't abide by the cease-fire agreement between us, and that his violations of that agreement required us to clarify the situation by invading.It's not our fault that the former regime chose to fight outside the conventions designed to limit the brutality of war inflicted on civilians.
It's not our fault that one of the many ways that regime chose to violate the Geneva Convention was to continue fighting at a time when it could not defend any specific place within the territory in the country over which it pretended to be sovereign. That decision implied that the leader of the regime would be reduced to the circumstances whose documentation was decried by the good Cardinal.
Said circumstances implied the need of Mr. Hussain--huge quantities of cash in hand notwithstanding--for medical treatment from his captors. Public documentation of the fact that Mr. Hussain received such care is IMHO entirely appropriate--once Mr. Hussain reduced himself to those straits.
Mr. Hussain will be subjected a public trial on hundreds of thousands of counts of murder of Iraqis within Iraq, and of war crimes. If that be humiliation, recall that mercy for the guilty can be abuse of the innocent.