More proof that all politics is local,

and that the European version of international justice is a joke.

This is the mirror image of a traditional Soviet show trial, a well-deserved prosecution that manages to make the defendant look like he's being railroaded. And Wesley Clark is boasting of his association with it, and endorsing it for prosecuting Saddam. You just have to read it. Trying to add anything to Mark Steyn's commentary is like attempting to rewrite Groucho Marx:

Up to the moment Saddam popped out of the spider-hole, the international jet set's line was that deplorable as Saddam's rule might be -- gassing Kurds, feeding folks feet-first into industrial shredders, etc. -- it was strictly an internal matter for the Iraqi people. The minute the old boy was in U.S. custody, the international jet set's revised position was that gassing Kurds, feeding folks into industrial shredders and so forth were crimes against the whole world and certainly not a matter for the Iraqi people.

Read it.