Guilt and innocence

Here's a story I missed just before Xmas.

Killing of Iraq Kurds 'genocide'

A court in The Hague has ruled that the killing of thousands of Kurds in Iraq in the 1980s was an act of genocide. The ruling came in the case of Dutch trader Frans van Anraat, who was given a 15-year sentence for selling chemicals to Saddam Hussein's regime. He was found guilty of complicity in war crimes over a 1988 chemical attack that killed more than 5,000 people, but acquitted of genocide charges. It is the first trial to deal with war crimes against Kurds in Iraq and Iran.

It is of course welcome that people are being held responsible for selling chemical weapons to Hussein, but I do wonder who is deciding upon who will be prosecuted and who will be allowed to walk free.

I only ask because we all know that Donald Rumsfeld sold Hussein weapons in the early 80s on behalf of Reagan's peace loving administration. I await his trial with great anticipation.