Re: The burden of proof
The concern, as I see it (and maybe I'm wrong), is that if we prosecute only after the crime, the western world may have lost a major city. Can anyone claim that it's beyond the realm of the possible?
There was a doctor interviewed on television a couple of days ago who said that a bioattack using smallpox could cause tens of millions of deaths in a matter of a few weeks.
Saddam Hussein has shown an eagerness to acquire and use horrible weapons, and has ample reason to hate the west, especially the US and Britain.
The past is prelude. Those who can't break with history are just as doomed as those who can't learn from it.