Saddam Hussein and Augusto Pinochet... and why justice is subjective to the point that makes me sick

Question thrown out in the open: Why was Saddam Hussein so hesitantly tried and executed while other dictators such as Chile's Augusto Pinochet where allowed years and years of impunity until he finally died of natural causes, leaving his victims in the dark and unaccounted for? I seriously don't get it (or maybe just don't want to grasp it, because the truth is just too painful). This example of selective justice leaves no hope left for a better future, to be honest. Justice only seems to work when circumstances merits the effort to do so...

Note: The picture shown depicts Saddam and Mel Gibson hand by hand... Found it to be very funny, so I thought i'd share it here. The weird thing is that Gibson is the fundementalist. (?) Such Irony!


This is a real shame to democracy... Justice only works when circumstances merits the effort to endorse it... There is no such thing as humanity or a humane treatment of things (at least in the political world). Every decision, action or step taken towards a goal is solely driven by economic and/or political factors that in the bottom line have little or nothing to do with the endorsement of REAL justice... That is why Saddam Hussein gets a brief and short trial and execution in retaliation for his crimes committed and Pinochet gets year after year of immunity until he relaxingly dies of old age enjoying life as if he deserved such fate...