That's the way that the case is going to be framed. Not the People of Iraq v. Hussein, but rather the aging, convict, self-appointed grand Neocon Poobah v. Saddam Hussein. Chalabi who has no real ties to Iraq other than being a Neocon and possessing a thirst for money and a lust for power, which he sold to Perlowitz & Company, is now setting the ground rules for he trial of Saddam. Note in the story that they are setting aside $75 million for the "trial". Are they looking for a blue dress too? And what's with his nephew being involved...oh yeah, it's the Nepostism Administration...no wait that's here. I'm so confused.

An Iraqi-run tribunal could begin proceedings against former president Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity as early as next spring, Iraqi political leaders and officials responsible for the court said Monday.

One of the architects of the tribunal, Salem Chalabi, said political leaders and legal specialists had already begun discussing the best prosecutorial strategy to employ against Hussein. Chalabi said there was growing agreement that Hussein should be charged with perhaps only a dozen specific atrocities in an effort to keep a trial from bogging down. The charges would include the use of chemical weapons against ethnic Kurds in 1988, the execution of prominent Shiite Muslim clerics and the killing of hundreds of Sunni Muslim tribesmen after a coup attempt, he said.
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U.S. officials said they were confident the tribunal would be able to conduct a fair trial of the former president. Although the law authorizing the tribunal was passed only last week by Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council, it was vetted by the occupation authority, the Pentagon and the White House, according to officials involved in the process.

"We think it will work," said a senior U.S. official familiar with the tribunal.

At a White House news conference on Monday, President Bush pledged that the United States would "work with the Iraqis to develop a way to try him that withstands international scrutiny."
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"We're not going to hold a kangaroo court," he (Chalabi) said.