aside from the issue of whether he deserves it (which he does)
by all accounts it was a kangaroo court.
(the cbc radio journal 'as it happens' interviewed one of his defense lawyers and
many of their motions were just rejected out of hand with no legal reasons- ie. 'the judge does not want your papers' Imagine that happening in the US. This is the democracy the US imposed on IRaq?

and of course they only picked some relatively small issue to try him on. Otherwise too many embarrasing facts for the US might arise.