Reply #4: Well, it's obviously bullshit

[Orrex]

Even if Benedict can't be tried per se, he could still be tried in absentia if the implication against him is sound.

But consider:

Clinton was tried as a US citizen for allegedly violating US law. Since Presidents 1 through 42 were not above the law, he was not eligibile for immunity.

Hussein is on trial not for molesting Texas boys but for torturing and murdering Iraqi citizens, so he's (nominally) not being subjected to US law.

Of course, zealots in the "Saddam-equals-bin-Laden" camp would probably argue that Hussein is not a legitimate head of state and therefore he enjoys no immunity.