My Daughter just came back from Baghdad (in the Army). She said that Iraqis were really focused on the trial. The trial needs to go forward with the evidence of the crimes against his people. The more Saddam asks out in the trial, the more it hurts him.
I think we can look forward to the day when his miserable life comes to an end. Hopefully his case won't end up like Milsovich(SP).
Milsovich's trail is bound to end in failure due the very conditions the US opposes at the Court in the Hague,e.g, the prosecuter is allowed to cobble together laws from all over the world and then force the defendent to struggle with the various laws. The Brit prosecutor has failed to get any convictions using laws from over 20 countries. If the Court were to set out a written body of laws under which defendents were tried, the US would probably still be against the idea.... But the current circumstances whereby the Court can shop Italy, Germany, Russia, Canada, Poland, South Africa, etc. (you get the picture) for a law to use against someone is unacceptable.