Interesting read, but this snippet about sums it up. We made a democratically elected government possible in Iraq. They followed their own standards rather than ours in seeing this through to a conclusion.
It's too bad that Saddam got insulted on the gallows. Were I in charge, I'd have had him sung a couple of hymns, not out of expectation that he would accept Jesus, but to p*** off the ACLU and perhaps provide at least a touch of American kindness to the ceremony.
It is unfortunate that Saddam got hanged for lynching a mere 148 Shiite men and boys from the town of Dujal in 1982 before getting tried for mudering 180,000 Kurds in the town of Anful some years later. But I think that even under American standards 148 men killed is enough to warrant the death penalty.
Compared to the first hangings following the Nuremburg trials, the hanging of Saddam was, at least, quick and painless in its execution.
". But I think that even under American standards 148 men killed is enough to warrant the death penalty"
Actually, one is enough