Minority Report.

The U.S. which helped bring Saddam Hussein and the right-wing Baathists to power in the first place, has always looked on Iraq as a blank sheet on which to scribble inane superpower slogans. This has made Washington, at different times, the enemy, the uncertain ally and the false friend of those who seek the removal of Mesopotamia's mustachioed ruler. One of defendants, a veteran anti-Saddam oppositionist named Hashim Qadir Hawlery was aggressively cross-examined about his membership in a secret Middle Eastern group named KLM.