It's Not Us, It's Them

Continuing her 'blame everyone else' campaign, Condoleeza Rice blames the rest of the world for not supporting the show trial of Saddam Hussein.

"The international community's effective boycott of Saddam's trial is only harming the Iraqi people, who are now working to secure the hope of justice and freedom that Saddam long denied them," Rice said.

The top U.S. diplomat also predicted that the Iraqi elections this week would yield the most democratic government "in the entire Middle East." She did not mention the long-standing democracy in Israel.

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She did not name names, nor say just what other nations could do to help. Although the former president's trial is being carried out in an Iraqi court, with an Iraqi judge, the United States underwrote and helped organize the criminal investigation and prosecution effort.

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Widespread international opposition to the death penalty has kept many countries from contributing money or other help to the Saddam prosecution.