The way that Saddam is being tried is mighty strange, as Matt Barganier points out. It would appear that the goal is to get him executed on relaively minor offenses (minor, that is, compared to other things he has done) before he gets tried for the really big crimes.
The most likely explanation, according to Baranier, (and I concur) is that there is a desire to avoid getting into areas where Saddam can embarrass officials by mentioning the fact that a lot of his actions during the Iran-Iraq War were more or less condoned by the U.S. government at the time.
That is all.
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