Realpolitik

David Aaronovitch in the Times today writes what might seem to be a fairly clear cut plea of mitigation for Saddam dressed up as a rejection of ‘Realpolitik’; that expansionist national policy having as its sole principle advancement of the national interest. If I were Saddam I would have called the US ambassador to Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney et al as witnesses. If they were so obviously complicit in the very acts of which he has been found guilty and sentenced to death how is that justice and are they not guilty themselves? Perhaps he would have just got the bath of acid and Tony and the buffoon Beckett could have cheered that instead.