The following comments reflect the balance of opinion we have

It's good that it's clarified where Saddam Hussein is now. But I do
not hope that people forget now that George W. Bush has lead
the world into a war without proof of WMD and a connection to
Osama bin Laden. What Bush did was wrong. And Americans
need to remember that next year when the presidential elections
take place.
Michelle Mauriere, Leipzig, Germany

Just watch how quickly the self-styled custodians of civil liberties
start to demand that Saddam is freed on bail, that he must not
be tried by the Americans and that in spite of all of the thousands
of crimes committed in his name, Saddam Hussein should not be
executed. My own view, its a shame that he was taken alive, it
will present so many problems for the apologists to latch on to.
Barry P, Havant, England

If anything good was to come
out of the war in Iraq, this is it -
at great cost. But Americans
must not lose sight of the fact
that what this is, is a war on
terror - are we closer to the goal
of that? I doubt it, when you
consider the ground realities in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to
mention elsewhere in the Middle East. It would be a mistake to
think the world has changed.
Uma, Mumbai, India

The American administration must now be very nervous. If a
proper war crimes tribunal is allowed, Saddam will implicate most
of them (and previous UK administrations as well). I think we
should think where Saddam's support, funds and weapons came
from when he was actually committing the worst atrocities for
which he may now stand trial.
Peter Budek, Bedford

I don't see the arrest of Saddam Hussein making any difference
to the coalition's problems in Iraq. This establishes Bin Laden as
the world's No1 terrorist, and I suspect that the Iraqi dissidents
will now turn to him to organise their campaigns against the
coalition forces, if they have not done so already. All that will be
derived from this is a couple of days good PR for Bush and Blair.
Frank Redmond, London, UK
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