Law & Order: Ruthless Dictator's Unit--Why Doesn't Saddam Trial = Ratings?

In six weeks, the two year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's first hearing will pass. Does anyone in America care anymore? At the rate this trial is progressing, the 69-year-old will croak from old age before the Iraqis can execute him.

Today in court Saddam would not enter a plea to the charge of killing and torturing hundreds of Shias.

Saddam, packing a Koran, said the following:

Your honour, you gave a long report. That report can't be summed up by saying guilty or not... This statement cannot influence me or shake a hair of my head. What matters to me is the Iraqi people and myself. I am president of Iraq by the will of the Iraqi people.

The judge entered a not guilty plea for Saddam.

Of all the trials and true crime stories that America has gone nuts for, isn't this trial getting remarkably little coverage?

VIDEO: The BBC's Jim Muir reports on Saddam Hussein's trial.