The Face of Saddam

When the ship is sinking, all the rats come up from the bowl of the ship to the main deck ready to jump. And the rats jumped. I mean the Provisional Government Council of Iraq. After reading one sentence from a hardcover document looking visibly restless, the Administrator of the invaded left in a hurry jumping on the first cargo to exit the "sinking ship". He never looked back at the sailors left behind to try to keep the ship afloat.

Three days later Saddam's face is paralyzing all Tv screens around the world, a mesmerizing image of the world's pariah, the heartless, cruel dictator quenching the insatiable thirst of a sensationalist human community. Call it "arraignment", "theater", call it "international circus", "photo op for the invader", "distraction", "changing the subject" or "blindfolding the world's events".

Saddam looked slim, somewhat defeated, aged a bit, defiant and feisty and nonetheless dignified but mostly very human as the world has never seen him before. The illegitimate court of an illegitimate government, resulted by an illegitimate invasion of this country, trying to level charges against an elected legitimate president using the law and the constitution created by the government of the accused. If Saddam is accused among other crimes of the invasion of the sovereign country of Kuweit, does that mean that George W. Bush can be charged of the crime of invading the sovereign country of Iraq? I am not a legal expert, but the irony of the situation unfolding tells me that they have their hands full unless they will attempt a "guerilla" court proceeding determining his fate in the fashion of another infamous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Evidently, this is a media plot orchestrated by the invader. There is no base to prosecute Saddam under these circumstances. The infamous dictator was the legitimate President of a sovereign country, invaded by another without a formal Declaration of War, and deposed by force by the invader.

Only history will tell, and perhaps next year the invader's arraignment for War Crimes at the International Court in Hague, once again will fill our TV screens. And somehow Saddam will have the last laugh.