WASHINGTON, D.C.—Curtis Doebbler, a human rights lawyer who has been retained to defend Saddam Hussein in his upcoming war crimes trial, tells a story that he says hints at the problems with America's occupation of Iraq. Since July, he said, he has been approached by not one but two separate organizations funded by the United States to help train the judges of the Iraqi Special Tribunal. Their proposal? That he contribute to the training. After the first request, Doebbler told the organization, which he won't name, that he would probably have a "conflict of interest" instructing the judges who would...