Trying Saddam
You will here over the coming weeks and months increasing calls from the Left for Saddam to be tried by the recently created International Criminal Court. There are a number of reasons for this, and Big Media coverage will focus on the ICC's lack of a death penalty. But that won't be the main reason Euro-leftists and anti-Americanistas push for Saddam to be tried before the ICC. No, they'll be pushing that because it the ICC is the wrong court if you want justice for Saddam, but the right court if you want to cover up the complicity of France and others in Saddam's reign of terror. Amir Teheri explains:

Their suggestion is prompted by two considerations. First, the United States is not included in the ICC, and thus would not be able to play a part in interrogating Saddam. The second is that the ICC would not be able to try Saddam for all his crimes since July 17, 1968, the date at which his Ba'ath Party seized power in a military coup d'etat. (The ICC's remit is limited to crimes committed since its own creation in 2002).

In other words, trying Saddam before the ICC virtually guarantees no evidence of France's long history of support for Saddam will come out, and most of Saddam's war crimes and crimes against his own people would also not be on the docket. Watch for Jacques Chirac to push heavily for an ICC trial.