[get'emall]

Mark Geragos... Paging Mr. Mark Geragos... please pick up the white coutesy phone in the lobby... Mr. Mark Geragos...

[Paleo Conservative]

His is not a death which anyone should mourn.

But I'm sure Danny Glover, Ed Asner, Mike Farrel, Michael Moore, Harry Belefonte, and all the other usual suspects will.

[sinanju]

I daresay I can hazard a few guesses at who is REALLY chewing their nails over this. I'm sure that it is Saddam's fondest wish, before he is sent to his reward, to regale the world with the compleat history of his business dealings abroad; starting with his blood brother, frere Jacques and so on down the list (no doubt including some US companies and politicians as well). I hope his guards are being extra careful. The list of people who would like him to do a Hermann Goering is doubtless a very long one.

[Starve The Beast]

He has not been cowed or intimidated, and has shown no sign of a sense of humiliation...

Baloney. Anybody remember this?

He was allowed to get cocky again when he realize he was in civilized custody. He's a real tough talker all right, just as long as he's safe. But let's not ever forget, this is the real Saddam.

[vbmoneyspender]

Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, advised the Prime Minister that the invasion was justified under international law - but very few international lawyers agree with him. By far the majority of specialists have argued that, in the absence of an explicit resolution from the UN security council authorising it, the invasion of Iraq could not be legally justified.

The Europeans are slowly but surely going collectively insane. In the years leading up to the invasion, Hussein fired hundreds of missiles at both American and British pilots. If the Europeans no longer consider the firing of missiles at some country's air force to constitute an act of war, then the Europeans might as well do away with any pretense of ever again attempting to defend themselves from anyone who might ever decide to fire weapons at them.