So, Saddam is likely to die at the end of a rope.

"As you watch your TV pictures of the march, ponder this: if there are 500,000 on that march, that is still less than the number of people whose deaths Saddam has been responsible for.

"If there are one million, that is still less than the number of people who died in the wars he started."

Tony Blair, 15th February 2003, Glasgow.

Presumably the other 499,852 or so deaths are to be "taken into consideration" as they say. Much as I abhor utterly judicial killing of any sort, anywhere, death is a way of life in Iraq, as much now as it was back then, and it seems futile to bleat about the wrongs of the death penalty when so many in that country apparently see it as the only way to achieve justice and our main ally revels in state sponsored killing in his own country.

However, I cannot help feeling that there remain so many unanswered questions about Saddam's period in power, and in particular the involvement of his former western allies:

These questions will now likely remain forever unanswered, and our involvement and guilt in the injustices of Saddam's regime will never be brought to justice. While we may not have achieved victory in Iraq, we have already gained the victor's privilege of rewriting the history of it. Aren't you glad to be British!