TACITUS offers a rather devastating critique of those opposing an Iraqi trial for Saddam Hussein. “It’s a meme meant to snatch the judgment of Saddam Hussein from his victims and hand it over to those same institutions whose counsel would have left him in power today.”

I think that the UN, and the human rights community, are guilty of neocolonialism here. And the groups who propped up Saddam have more of a conflict of interest — and certainly a far more culpable one — than do his victims.

I also think that the end result of all of this will be a free Iraq that is close to the United States, and deeply suspicious of the United Nations, the human rights community, and the European Union. Once again, Bush’s enemies are playing into his hands.