Reply #7: If Saddam receives a fair trial, this could all be entered into evidence

[daleo]

Therefore, he will never receive a fair trial. I suspect they will try him on some 'garden variety' murder, and execute him, forestalling any of the U.S. involvement in war crimes during the Iran-Iraq war. Any charges related to rape rooms and torture chambers will also come uncomfortably close to the BFEE, so those will be avoided.

So, I think they will pick some murder out of the grab bag that doesn't really have political overtones, charge him, convict him, and execute him, silencing him for good. But he may have documents stashed somewhere that would be released in that eventuality, giving him revenge on the BFEE from beyond the grave.