At Hussein's Hearings, U.S. May Be on Trial

Doesn't take a genius to know why Saddams' lawyers were killed/chased off. Nor to predict that this trial will not go through, even though it is a sham trial, without something to prevent Rummy from having to testify.

The ongoing trial of Saddam Hussein could prove increasingly uncomfortable for the Bush administration. The first crime of which the deposed dictator is accused, the secret execution of 143 Shiites arrested in 1982, seems an odd choice for the prosecution, and politics may be behind it. Hussein is accused of using poison gas against Iranian troops, of genocide against the Kurds and of massacring tens of thousands to end the 1991 uprising after his defeat in the Gulf War. The problem for the Bush administration with these other, far graver charges, is that the Americans are implicated in them either through acts of commission or omission.

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