Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Iraqis learn the art of legal “workarounds”

This depressing New York Times article
by John Burns and Marc Santora details the frantic, reckless manner in
which Saddam Hussein was shoved into the noose in clear violation of
Iraqi law. We can’t even get a hanging right. With all of the world
watching, we yet again were the primary authors of a violent,
uncivilized, and primitive act which — no matter how justified in some
ultimate moral sense — was carried out in the most thuggish, wretched,
inept, and (we now learn) patently illegal manner.