If that's true, I would agree with you. I still think we should wait to learn which two factions were going at it. If it's just civilians stringing up Ba'athists, then good on them. If it's Shi'ites and Sunnis, this could get very ugly, and we have to put a stop to it immediately.
Of course it's Shi'ites and Sunnies, aren't Saddams thugs almost all Sunnis, with the odd Christian thrown in?