Saddam Hussein, The Bell Tolls for Thee...and for UT

An Iraqi court today found deposed dictator, murderer, and torturer Saddam Hussein guillty of crimes against humanity. Although there is a mandatory appeals process for all death sentences in the new Iraq, it looks like he will ultimately be hanged for his crimes. No matter your feelings on the war, this is a day of justice for the victims of his merciless crimes. Pajamas Media has one of the better roundups in the blogosphere of the news of and worldwide reaction to Saddam's verdict and sentence. My favorite part...? Even the biased MSM says he was "visibly shaken"...I hope he lives every moment of the rest of his miserable life in utter fear, because after the life he has led and the lives he has ended, the hangman's noose will feel like a motherly hug compared to that which awaits him in the afterlife. Read it all, especially the Prime Minister of Iraq's statement, which I have excerpted below.

"The days of Saddam and tyranny is over. These are the days of rules of law. No sector will have supremacy over another….Saddam's crimes belong to no sector and the track record of his regime is a disgrace in history of those who have inflicted pain on the Iraqi people all over the sountry. We are surprised that anybody calls for the release of a dictator since it is the Iraqi court that decides fates."

As for the weekend in Tennessee football, my prediction for UT to lose a heartbreak to the Tigers was spot on. In losing on a TD pass with 9 seconds left, which is tough for anyone, the bell tolled on their national championship and SEC title hopes for the year. In this case, it wasn't that the refs screwed them, it wasn't bad weather, or anything else for that matter. They just went toe-to-toe with a very good LSU football team and came up short for the same reasons the Vols almost always come up short when it matters...inability to run the football in crunch time against great defenses, inability to get off the field on third down, playing a prevent defense with the game on the line, and, as always, the lack of killer instinct needed to put away teams on the ropes. Backup QB Jonathan Crompton played a fine ballgame for a redhsirt freshman after Erik Ainge went down, but he can't do it all on his own. As for the Titans, just an absolute train wreck...QB Vince Young threw three embarrassingly easy INTs, two of them returned for touchdowns. The Titans looked badly overmatched in just about every area of the game, and at this rate, it may be 2008 before they even sniff .500 again.