by TChris

For all the posturing the Bush administration has done with regard to Saddam Hussein, it seems the administration is reluctant to let Hussein have his day in court.

Iraq's justice minister on Tuesday accused the United States of trying to delay Iraqi efforts to interrogate Saddam Hussein, saying "it seems there are lots of secrets they want to hide."

Those secrets, according to Justice Minister Abdel Hussein Shandal, include the money that the U.S. funneled to Hussein to support him during the years mass graves were being filled with bodies. Those graves became the retroactive justification for invading Iraq in the absence of weapons of mass destruction or evidence that Iraq was involved in the attack on the World Trade Center.

"There should be transparency and there should be frankness, but there are secrets that if revealed, won't be in the interest of many countries," [Shandal] said. "Who was helping Saddam all those years?"