WTF Is It Now?!?

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Collateral damage
"The US warmly courted Saddam in the 1980s as a potential ally and an Arab bulwark against the anti-American Iranian Islamic regime of Ayatollah Khomeini. Americans who, at the time, pushed for close links with Saddam's regime include Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld....Bush may yet wish Saddam had been killed rather than captured alive." - - Professor Amin Saikal, director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies.

"[P]rominent Americans could find themselves playing a role in what may be a very long, drawn-out and embarrassing trial. Imagine, for instance, seeing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, and a parade of CIA directors and secretaries of state called as witnesses -- for the defense. Not to mention a clutch of headmen from other Western and Middle Eastern countries. This may be exactly what Saddam now craves: the chance to publicly implicate other leaders and countries in his own brutal past. It won't be difficult." - - Barry Lando, in Salon.

Shaking hands with Saddam.