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I didn't realize that Tom Brokaw was the ultimate arbiter of what the "proper" opinion is about stuff like this. You mean he actually agreed with something Imus said, and so that means whatever Imus said is more meaningful or something? As opposed to ol' Imus just saying it and having that statement stand on its own merits? Wow, it's so good to have people like Brokaw around to tell us the right way to view things, isn't it.

When reporters start reporting what others of their profession say, well, then the whole profession of journalism heads straight for the dumpster.

"I didn't realize that Tom Brokaw was the ultimate arbiter of what the "proper" opinion is about stuff like this. "

He is retired so he can say what he wants and what he thinks the public should want. Iman is just an old goofball who is occasionally amusing.

After a generation of murder, mayhem, and crimes against humanity Saddam was excecuted in a process that lasted a few minutes and few seconds of which he was insulted. The noose was placed carefully around his neck and the drop broke his neck killing him instantly. There was little physical suffering and from the physical standpoint this execution went perfectly.

A little aside here, at the Nuremberg Trials executions none of the condemned fared as well as Saddam.

THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY--AND OF ALL TIME, PART TWO

"..The executions, in a brightly lighted prison gymnasium where three looming black wooden gallows had been erected, were witnessed by a handful of Allied military officers and eight journalists, one of whom, Kingsbury Smith of International News Service, wrote a famous newspaper article, "The Execution of Nazi War Criminals, 16 October 1946," based on his eyewitness observations. Although Smith discreetly omitted mentioning it, the experienced Army hangman, Master Sgt. John C. Woods, botched the executions. A number of the hanged Nazis died, not quickly from a broken neck as intended, but agonizingly from slow strangulation. Ribbentrop and Sauckel each took 14 minutes to choke to death, while Keitel, whose death was the most painful, struggled for 24 minutes at the end of the rope before expiring..."