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I posted this on another thread, but it fits here too:

What's making me sick is the whining going on about how those bad guards taunted poor old Saddam before opening the trap door and getting rid of him. After what the Shi'ites suffered at the hands of Saddam, what would anyone expect, that they not be overjoyed the tyrant is dead? They were vying for the job of being the ones to get to hang him. I would have tried to get a few verbal shots in too before offing him. That's the human reaction. Those that hung him weren't automatoms. Some of their families suffered horribly at Saddam's hands of gov't. Torture, death. And people are complaining because they mouthed off for a couple of minutes to the one that caused all their grief? And of course there are the attempts to somehow link this behavior to the U.S., how we bumped Saddam off too quickly. Like waiting for some more time to pass would have helped how? The Sunni's were going to be PO'd regardless of when Saddam was hung. So, let them be angry. They are already, and they are causing most of the bombings of our troops and of the Shi'a. I'm amazed at the restraint the Shi'a have showed. My instinct would be to try to stomp the Sunni's that have been causing most of the insurrection, into the ground. And, by the way, I don't like the Shi'a any better than the Sunni's, but at the moment it is the Sunni's, backed by the fundamentalists from Saudi Arabia, and some from Syria, that have caused many of the problems. The Iranians are causing trouble backing Al Sadr and his militias in response. But it's the Sunni's that have started most of the sectarian violence, and now that their main man Saddam has bit the dust, they better catch on that they are on the wrong end of a losing proposition now. Either they cut a deal or they will go down in the long run.