Donerail&SalB: after a war or a revolution, you've obviously the ones who have won, and others who have lost. The problem is that the strongest wins, and the strongest is not always the fairest. Some of dictators have won wars or revolution ( Pinochet, Castro, Staline, Ceaucescu, Hitler, Franco, Danton & Robespierre ), and have judged and condamned a plenty of persons, they had the right of the power with them, but does it mean that they were right? Of course not...for us. But for them? When USA lost his war against Vietnam, some of vietnamese people have been killed by the communist regime, just because they were defending another kind of ideals. What would USA have made if they had won? the same thing, and the one who is right one day is wrong the following day...
You fight for your ideal, for your freedom, it's ok but the one in front of you is doing the same, and you can't judge him.
Now, in the special case of Saddam Hussein, he has killed thousands of kurdes, men, women and children, and I wouldn't spend a second defending him, I won't cry when "iraky's government" will kill him. But I would prefered another way of destitution, and a fair trial by his own people.
Montjoly.