Ed,
I don't think so. I think the value of the Nuremberg trials was in seeing these monsters reduced to prisoners, in seeing them forced to answer, in that most civilized setting, a courtroom, for the most vicious crimes imaginable, and in letting the world see it.
Eleven were sentenced to hang, eleven sent to Spandau, I think. And of course the trials would have been enhanced, not diminished, if Adolph Hitler could have been tried (and hanged) as well. It's a great visual lesson for human rights to see omnipotent tyrants brought low before the power of law and justice. I have to believe seeing Saddam in an orange jumpsuit, forced to face at least some of his accusers (the widows and orphans), is much better than producing a corpse on a cold slab (e.g. his two thug sons). He's murdered the most Muslims in history, let him be tried according to western rules but in a Moslem country and be sentenced to a Moslem death--beheading by scimitar, or perhaps they could sharpen up the points on Uday's iron maiden and give it one last go before they melt it down for pig iron:
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