[Sgt_Tropo]

Time; yes indeed. I hope that when they do finally corner Saddam, that they don't kill him outright. I would hope that they let the Iraqi tribunal court judge him and find him guilty. After all, an Iraqi judged guilty of heinous crimes against fellow Iraqis will go along way to insuring that peace could actually come to their country. An American court finding him guilty or American soldiers simply killing him outright does nothing more than make him a martyr in some of those lunitic minds. Let the Iraqi's find him guilty, then I hope and pray that they draw and quarter him in a public execution and wrap his remains in a pigskin and then burn it. Talk about sending the right message to their fellow countrymen and any remaining Saddam sympatizers !
However, we, both as Americans that have fought and died for the Iraqi people and as holders-in-trust of Iraqi itself, need to also send a VERY STRONG message to the world, that the search for Saddam does not respect any national borders and that Saddam is subject to capture or summary execution regardless of where he is located. Any country's resistance in the apprehension of Saddam and his immediate return for trial willl be viewed as an attack on Iraq and an attack on the US. The same should be done in the hunt for bin Laden.
These countries and their leaders need to stand up andtake a stand. They either support terrorists and murderous dictators or they don't. No middle road, no fence strattling. The world has stood by idlly long enough. If they say they do not support terrorists and murders, then prove it and get in lock-step with the US and Britain and drive the terrorists and murders out and into the light of day and judgement. Otherwise, be prepared to be treated equally as a terrorist or murderer by association and through ommission, if not by outright commission.
The world is crying out that the US, being the last superpower nation, has an obligation to be the world's policeman. If that is so, then we need to take that responsibility VERY seriously and the world needs to understand that murderers and terrorist will be treated like the scum they are, with no "civil rights" and no sanctuary or quarter given if and when they choose to fight.
Countries like France, Germany and Russia need to be told, preferably by the new Iraqi government, that their oil contracts and loans were made with the tyrant Saddam and not with the new government. Therefore, the loans and sales contracts are null and void and must be renegotiated if any payments or delivery of goods is to be expected. The price of renegotiation should be the return of Saddam for trial, or his head on a platter.