Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is ready to start Saddam Hussein’s trial, as are many Iraqis and a good portion of the world sans George Galloway. Talabani expects the trial to start within two months in what will most likely be a widely publicized trial.

Talabani said the proceedings would start “within two months, I think.”

“Saddam Hussein is a war criminal,” Talabani said, noting that he had committed “crimes against Iraqi people” in Kurdistan as well as Shiite areas of southern Iraq and in Baghdad.

Noting that he was a lawyer, Talabani said in English that he would have to await the outcome of the trial process “but the Iraqi people from now are starting to ask for executing Saddam Hussein and for sentencing him for death.”

Whether or not Saddam Hussein recieves the death penalty is the only question in the trial, not whether he will be found guilty of several war crimes and attrocities. The larget question though is what effect the outcome of the trial will have in Iraq today. Will it stop the insurgency or will it at least derail it?