You wrote: .....It was the responsibility of the US to either try Saddam in a International court.......
I fully agree. BUT, the US Administration was afraid to do that for fear of the US being revealed as an accomplice in Saddam's crime of gassing the Kurds and Iranians. Ah, yes, as a dead man tells no tales, so a good Saddam is a dead Saddam!
Recall that, under Reagan, the US supplied poison gas/nerve gas and chemicals for making it to Saddam. And that the US supplied, via Rumsfeld, Iraq with nerve gas bombs to kill thousands of Iranians during the tail-end of the Iraq-Iran War (1979-1988).
To be sure, at the International Court, all the dirty linen would have been aired and, the trial of Saddam, like Milosevich's, would have ended up with an "inconclusive" verdict. To be sure, the US cannot afford to be shamefully exposed..................... No wonder the great haste in disposing of Saddam !!! I believe a war is shaping up in the Middle East against Iran. If Saddam remains alive, the very fact that he is still alive could somehow inspire Iraqi resistance against the Occupying Power thereby making things doubly difficult for them.
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