The court's highest responsibility is to see to it that this haughty and hateful man and his co-defendants are accorded the human dignity and right to defend themselves that the tyrannical Baathist regime systematically denied to its millions of victims. To do so would declare strength, not weakness, as well as confidence in the set of values around which a new and better Iraq must be built.


Full editorial at


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/opinion/30wed2.html?hp