...before a lot of the people who were castigating Bush as a "miserable failure" because he couldn't find Saddam start saying that catching Saddam isn't that big a deal?

I suspect it's already happening.

By the way, I wonder how effective a commercial showing Dick Gephardt repeating the words "this president is a miserable failure" over and over would be for the Republicans ten months from now?

I checked DU at 8:30am Sunday morning. Some moonbats there were already barking "BFD! What about the plastic turkey?"

Hey Rand,

Why don't you write up a piece on the irony of the anti-war protestors wanting sovereignty returned to the Iraqis pronto but now with the capture of Saddam they don't trust the Iraqis to try him and instead want an international trial.

Also why are the protesters looking for a long, complicated trial when so many facts are prima facia established? Are there expecting there to be mitagating circumstances that can excuse Saddam ordering a million deaths?

The issue as I see it is that they want Saddam tried in a forum where they can manipulate the situation to put Saddam's connection to the US on trial. He's really immaterial. The US is the target.

What do you think?

Well, obviously, the Iraqis can be trusted with to govern themselves--they just can't be trusted with handling former world leaders...

It's a good idea, but I'm busy working on three Wright Brothers essays...

Found in Atrios' comments:

"I don't know how to feel about this. Or what to think, or say, or do. Odd.
It seems as though this is being touted as a good thing. Is it a good thing? Capturing him ALIVE is a good thing.
For months, I've been cynically & rhetorically saying, "Oh yeah? We won this war? Where are the WMD? Where's Saddam? Where's Osama?" It seems as though one of those questions was answered. We have Saddam.
And now that we have him, I'm wondering why I thought it was so necessary to catch him in the first place. What will this solve? What difference will this make? Obviously, I was letting my own partisanship and distrust of Bush get in the way of determining what my focus should be. My own flip flop feels very uncomfortable--but I honestly don't know what good this will do and why I was so concerned about Saddam's whereabouts in the first place.
Does anybody else feel this way? I'm having a hard time sorting through the jumble of my confused, conflicted, and bizarre thoughts."

I'm almost tempted to feel pity for this person. Almost.

Atrios commenter wrote: I'm having a hard time sorting through the jumble of my confused, conflicted, and bizarre thoughts.

Brother, the rest of us gave up long ago sorting through the jumble of your confused, conflicted, and bizarre thoughts.