Michael Scharf Quotations

But that's going to be a little difficult because Saddam Hussein has a reputation for not putting anything in writing because he wanted to avoid this very thing.

Now they are seeking to exploit the tragic -- but not unforeseeable -- murders of their colleagues in an attempt to derail the proceedings.

Nuremberg begat the Yugoslavia tribunal which begat the Rwanda tribunal which begat the special court for Sierra Leone and East Timor and now the permanent International Criminal Court.

Saddam will have rights that none of his victims had because of the Nuremberg precedent.

The defense attorneys in part brought this tragic situation upon themselves when they elected to have their faces and identities broadcast during the first day of the trial,

This is one of the most important trials of our lifetimes, ... the number of victims ... the status of the defendant ... and the fact that the whole world went to war against this man in 1991.

This trial has not gone as anybody has hoped.

And it is crucial that he be convicted of genocide,

What they really want to do is prove that he gave the order,

He is going to use this trial as his bully pulpit in an effort to put that invasion on trial, ... But it's not really in his client's interest to try to hijack the trial and make it all about U.S. violations of international law.