The Show of the Century

The greatest reality TV show in the history of the world is yet to made, despite the material readily available. The protagonist: Saddam Hussein. We should be following his trial and probable execution/murder/release whatever may become of him. We incorporate his insane antics in the courtroom; he only responds to being called "The President," he will not respond to "the defendent." He is currently on a hunger strike. One of his co-defendents only attends the trial in pyjamas. Another codefendent lost a procedural ruling and sat with his back to the courtroom the entire day.

You can't make stuff like this up.

Then, we incorporate re-enactments of Saddam's rule, secret meetings with advisors about avoiding the UN weapons inspectors, etc. They could all be based upon the hundreds of hours of tapes that have been recovered. Imagine this scene:

One of the most dramatic moments in the 12 hours of recordings comes when Saddam predicts — during a meeting in the mid-1990s — a terrorist attack on the United States. "Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before Aug. 2 and told the British as well … that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction." Saddam goes on to say such attacks would be difficult to stop. "In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?" But he adds that Iraq would never do such a thing. "This is coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq."

Also at the meeting was Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who said Iraq was being wrongly accused of terrorism. "Sir, the biological is very easy to make. It's so simple that any biologist can make a bottle of germs and drop it into a water tower and kill 100,000. This is not done by a state. No need to accuse a state. An individual can do it."