Saddam's "trial"

News Dissector this was going to be about something else but that will probably be the next post instead, this just caught my attention.

“In 1946, the Nuremburg Tribunal rejected the German defense of pre-emption
when it came to the invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940. The Germans had
cited the imminent occupation of these two nations by the armed forces of France
and Great Britain, which would have threatened the German northern front, as
just cause. This defense was rebuked by the tribunal, led by US Supreme Court
Justice Robert H. Jackson, who instead identified the German action as
constituting a "war of aggression." Judge Jackson went on to say that "To
initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it
is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that
it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

Hmmm... sounds hauntingly similar to another war...