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a couple of points
the BBC says that he was convicted specifically for deaths in a supressed uprising from 1982, when we were still pals with Saddam.
If George Bush jr, so hungry for the trappings of gravitas, had said that he wished Saddam's sentence be commuted to life in prison, it would have immediately been thus commuted. Does anybody doubt that? And our president would even get the chance, several hundred thousand needless deaths later, to demonstrate that Jesus really is his "favorite philosopher", as he once claimed.