Ahh well. I was still hoping that we'd be able to read Saddam's memoirs, and thus perhaps learn something. For example, a comment in the Guardian says:
It was, as he admitted in one of his trial outbursts, the approval of Washington and the poison gas supplied by what was then West Germany that gave him the confidence to douse Halabja with chemicals in the middle of the Iran-Iraq war.
I think this is the sort of interesting information about the recent past that would help guard against the creation of more Saddams in the future. Now, of course, that source of information is gone. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
I'm glad the pictures leaked. Maybe they'll change a few attitudes towards the death penalty and towards victor's justice.
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