Saddam's lucky he didn't end up like Thomas "Black Jack" Ketcham...hanged in New Mexico in 1901, there was no experienced hangman in the area, the rope was too long and, well, old Black Jack just lost his head over the whole thing....
Clayton, NM. Stopped there once on a cross country drive. Interesting area. Not too far from the Texas panhandle border, Interesting towns there small with red brick streets. There is a really cool volcano you can drive up to and walk inside the crater just west. Then there is quater horse country. And the amazing lake and "the Plug" at Eagles rest. Then Taos and it just keeps going on and on. The whole top of New Mexico is amazing. Los Ochos wow.