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Hussein is dead. He got what he deserved, even though he clearly didn't have anything near a fair trial. Hussein's US backers get off scott free, of course. See Juan Cole's Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein. US corporate media mostly skirted around the fact that the US was supporting Hussein during the crime he was convicted of and continued to support him for years afterward. The media's treatment of this enemy leader's crimes can be contrasted with its treatment of a recently deceased US leader, Gerald Ford. Ford was a mass murderer. He backed Indonesia's invasion and occupation of East Timor, during which Indonesia murdered around 1/3rd of East Timor's population. At the time US media gave little coverage to the occupation and even less to US support of it. As atrocities increased coverage decreased until it reach zero at the worst point. In the obsequious coverage of Ford following his death none of the media have seen fit to acknowledge this fact, in contrast to the emphasis on Hussein's crimes. Enemy crimes are frontpage news, while US crimes are mostly downplayed or ignored.