Well if you dont close it. Someone like me is going to come along and say
Wow - I suppose the timing of this verdict has nothing to do with some upcoming elections of some kind? The trial was a joke. Just like the outcome, of which there could only be 1. It was just a matter of deciding when to time it.
Or
Well, the US Government is probably responsible for more innocent iraqi deaths than saddam every was. Not necessarily including the 50,000 or so killed in the "liberation". So why don't they go hang themselves too.
Which of course will make this thread political.