>In Fighting Words, Christopher Hitchens argues that letting Saddam
>go into exile--and get off the hook--is a terrible idea: "Saddam
>Hussein and his gang are corporeal and material in the extreme, and
>they believe that it takes a regime to protect them from what they
>have done. If the regime is changed, as it obviously will be soon,
>one way or another, then life should change abruptly for them, too.
>The point of the change is to instate some standard, however tenuous
>and hypocritical, of international law. One can not easily achieve
>that by exempting its chief violators to begin with."
>http://g.msn.com/0NL34065/350
Can someone explain why presidents of the U.S. aren't held to this same standard?
Doug