Saddam is not a criminal - he's an enemy combatant! Criminal = court; combatant = hanging
Asked why it was right for President Clinton to use military force to halt Slobodan Milosevic's crimes against humanity in Kosovo, but not for President Bush to do the same thing against Saddam, Clark said that in Iraq, "The imminence of stopping a guy from committing a crime in progress - it wasn't there." The new RAT law enforcement model: if the perp manages to finish the crime, he is thereafter given a pass. Five minute statute of limitations.
I can see how a Clinton or a Clintonista might like that...