Saddam, Say Hi to Your Sons, Room and Temperature, for Me

With all that's gone on the last few days in my own life, I failed to mention that Saddam Hussein, serial murderer, dictator, and torturer, was finally sent packing to his own warm corner of the afterlife where he can join his equally murderous and evil sons, killed by coalition forces a couple of years ago. After a trial where he had a right to counsel, a right to present evidence on his behalf, a right to be innocent until proven guilty, and a right not to be tortured or murdered (all things he denied his victims), he was sentenced to hanging by an Iraqi judge, and that sentence was carried out over the weekend. It certainly won't solve all of Iraq's problems, but it does close a horrific chapter in Iraqi history...here's to hoping 2007 brings better times for Iraq.

As Leatherneck M31 pointed out:

"Interesting contrast this weekend... the deaths and funerals of two national leaders. One (former U.S. President Gerald Ford) was given the full honors of his nation and the respect of his countrymen. He returned to the nation's capitol to lie in repose with the pomp and circumstance rendered as only the U.S. military can.

The other shuffled to the gallows where his countrymen roughly placed a noose around his neck and intentionally provoked him during his final moments. With absolutely no warning, he was dropped to his fate and without ceremony, zipped into a rubber bag, then tossed in the back of a van.

Sic semper tyrannis."