Saddam Is A Man Of His Word

True to his word, Saddam did not show up to court today.

Saddam Protests Treatment With No-Show

See, upon first glance, Saddam comes off as crazy with all of this. But I think he knows exactly what he is doing. The guy knows that his trial is just a formality- everyone knows he's guilty and everyone knows he's likely getting executed. So he needs to take control of the trial. And to do so, he's taking a cue from the American (celebrity) justice system.

He is turning the trial into comedy, into a circus. And as we have seen from our examples here (O.J., Michael Jackson), the more of a circus the trial becomes, the more likely it is for acquittal, no matter what the evidence is. I don't think it'll work in Iraq (I foresee no pro-Saddam protests outside the courtroom), but he has succeeded into turning something that might've resembled the Nuremberg trials into the Michael Jackson trial, minus the pajamas.

Tom Delay, take note.