Once Saddam is formally charged, he will have the right to counsel and we will lose control of the prisoner. He will be much less likely to cooperate and we will be much less likely to get the goods on france and the others, including the media, who colluded with him in his many crimes. Not that we don't already have plenty on them, but in this age of the spinmeisters what we need is mountains of evidence. We also need information on the WMDs. The red cross and their allies on the left know Saddam can provide us with this and it scares them to death. It doesn't take much reflection to know that would be an unwelcome development for them.
Here's another question for the red cross -- how come they didn't object to the illegal treatment Augusto Pinochet received in Britain?
We "had" good mountains of evidence with OJ and we saw how that went!
I believe we are in times where the ones who can gain public favor first by even "false perceptions" are the winners.
Just as abortion has lessened the value of a life in morality, liberalism has lessened the value of the truth as the judge of weighty issues.
This is truly a time when all conservative politicians need to be pro-active, and like the 2004 Lakers, they aren't giving a lot of themselves to get it done.