Defending Saddam

I know that a bunch of people are going to rip on these two lawyers, but they are right. If we intend for Saddam's trial to be considered fair, he must have reasonable counsel and should be allowed the presumption of innocence.

No matter how blatent and obvious his crimes (and you'd have to have been dead for the past 35 years not to be aware of them), he still should be afforded all the protections normally given to common criminals. The prosectution should have no problem proving his guilt beyond any sort of reasonable or even unreasonable doubt.

Give him a fair trial and then take care of business. If these two think that there is any sort of defense against the charges that will be brought against Saddam, then they should defend him.

They will fail and Saddam will swing, but such is the fate of the tyrant. Tyrant, terrorist, or thief, we still owe it to ourselves (not to him) to do things right.