[oceanview]

as predicted here by several of us, when the video first broke.

Maliki is an idiot, a jerk. He couldn't even pull off a simple execution - professionally run and disciplined.

[indcons]

BTTT

The Sadr loyalists went overboard. No surprisingly, this has drawn condemnation from the major Sunni sheikhdoms in the region.

Here's an earlier Kuwait Times editorial that I posted yesterday: Message received [Sunni Angst re: Shias in Iraq]

[Purrcival]

Just heard Mark Ginsberg (sp?) on Fox News a little while ago. He was saying that one of the most powerful forces in the Muslim world is humiliation, and that the video showed Saddam, a Sunni, being humiliated by Shi'ites at the beginning of a Sunni feast. His opinion is that because of this, the execution will backfire on Maliki, and by extension, the U.S.

We'll see...

[jveritas]

Saddam one the worst mass murderers in history is dead and at the end that is what matters. Do you really believe that the Sunni Arabs and Saddam loyalists will be less angry if one witness or guard did not have fighting words with Saddam before he got hanged? You need to get real and stop being obsessed with superfacial stuff.