I'd like to see Saddam face justice too. But if he has critical info that we can't get anywhere else, we'll cut a deal. Saddam's a coward and he'll do whatever it takes to save his skin.
And frankly, I think Bush will sell out if it means he can get back on the UN's good side.
Chances that Saddam will hang: zilch

We will get all the information we want out of him. It is a no-shit matter of national security. We are not just going to ask questions and allow him to not answer them. If he doesn't cooperate with us, I'm sure we know a couple of not-so-nice countries that would like to ask him a few questions behind closed doors when no U.S. officials are present (Qatar). They would probably be more than amenable to asking Saddam a list of our own questions while they are at it. Any deal we cut with Saddam will not hinge on whether he lives or dies, but rather, how he dies. Will he get the plastic shredder on a low setting or a bullet to the head? Saddam will be an example. No more rape and pillage with a retirement in exile.

Sorry Rob, I'd love to think that Saddam would be handed over to the Israelis (or whoever) for some hard questioning, but it just ain't gonna happen.
Maybe Bush will wait and see if Saddam's capture shakes some upper level intel sources loose and if Bush gets the info he needs then he'll hand him over to the Iraqis for trial and execution.
But till then, the Axis of Weasel is gonna demand that Saddam be handed over to the ICC. And as long as Saddam thinks that the US might cave, he's not going to say shit.
That's the point.
The AoW does not want this man to talk.

best solution: no trial, no hearings, no sentence

just drop him off in baghdad's main square

see what happens

and yes, i'm very mean

Send him to GITMO.
Interogate him till we get all the info we need. Then drop him off...

Safire is dead wrong. Saddam is done. His army is gone, his money is seized, his sons are dead, his reign and ruling line are over for good. Without oil to sell or an army to command, Saddam holds no more sway with middle eastern rulers if he was to call for jihad.

As much as the liberal media would love the story of Saddam as the flamboyant martyr, it ain't gonna happen. Saddam is a broken, pathetic figure. There's only one message that is going to come out of the trial..."this is what happens when you mess with the United States".

If he didn't intend to trade information for his life, he would have shot himself as soon as he saw who came knocking on his door.

He'll talk and in the end if we get all the terrorists, it's okay with me if he goes to Paris and lives the life of a libertine.

He's no longer a danger alive, and he will be a martyr dead.

I hope people in the Bush administration are smart enough to know that.

erp, I understand what you're saying, but handing the SOB over to the ICC legitimizes that organization. In the long run, this will hurt us worse than not getting the info.
Saddam can never be a martyr, given the way he surrendered himself.
And BTW, the Democrats are pushing for Saddam to be handed over to the ICC for the same reason as the AoW's: They don't want the WMD's located either.

I'm not suggesting that we turn him over to anyone except our own military. No world court, no Israeli's, no Gitmo. He's kept somewhere secret and we don't need to know where that is.

The deal is, he tells us everything he knows (and I don't care how long that takes), and when we're satisfied (and by we, I mean we Americans) he's told us everything, let him go.

If someone wants to take him out, arrest him again, or whatever, I really couldn't care less. He will be known as a rat fink, so can never become a symbol for more terrorism.

Executing him = martyr. Pictures, video, etc don't matter. They will say they were doctored and it really wasn't Saddam looking like a rag picker, etc., etc.

A live "hero" talking his head off to save his hide is far better than a dead hero.