All rhetoric fades before facts.  The Americans say: Put up or Shut up

1. Last week, all charges against Saddam Hussein (re: the Halabja gas case) have been dropped, but not against others. Saddam Hussein could have been tried in absentia.  I was really looking forward to this trial.

2. The Dujail trial was a farce by any standards.  Saddam was attacked by 40 gunmen that were sheltered by a village.  120 faced death.  Musharraf or Bush would have done the same.  If Bush's convoy is attacked near Islamabad, Apache helicopters will destroy the entire village.  Saddam was brave enough to get out of the car, talk to people, and then conduct trials for the instigators of the attack.

3. Muqtada al-Sadr is the power broker behind the current Iraqi PM - Nuri Al-Maliki.  He had the power and the influence to bring Saddam to trial for his father's death.  He chose not to.  Why?

If you remember, George Bush I, Bush the Elder, created a story about Saddam Hussein killing babies in a hospital to justify the war.  That story turned out to be false.

All the WMD evidence presented in the UN by a straight-faced Colin Powell turned out to be false. 100% false.

So, what tells Najib Kazmi and Ali Haider that all the 'evidence on the Web' is true.  When it was time to present it, it was not.

When it was time to present proof, everyone chickened out, and fate showed Saddam Hussein to be heads and shoulders above any other leader in that country - principled, sure of himself and brave.  Does that make him my hero. NO.  But based on all the evidence so far, it makes him a great Arab leader, who had to be maligned and removed because he did not follow the orders of the United States, Israel, or Iran.

Am I against Iran - no!  I strongly commend the brave approach taken by Ahmedinejad, and the lectures of Rafsanjani in the US.  I am just comparing with the evidence, and I want everyone else to do the same.  Any takers?  Let us be intellectual enough to put biases aside and debate the facts.