[Smokin' Joe]

We didn't need to hang Saddam, he could have died in jail from a stroke or heart attack. History will judge.

You have a right to your opinion, but YES!~ 'We' did need to hang him.

To hang him like the Nazis who hanged for slaughtering their countrymen and others.

He was tried in Iraqi court, not ours.

If he had been allowed to die a natural death, it would have been seen as "the will of Allah to relieve him of the burden of captivity by the infidel", and definitely not the same thing as hanging him like the murderous criminal he was.

A "heart attack" or other 'health event' would have invited the same accusations Putin is hearing in regards to dead journalists and others.

Hanging is best.

[Eastbound]

Well said. Exacting justice is not about check-mating a sovereign. It's about taking him out of the game -- permanently. The Iraqi people and the rule of law have spoken, just as sure as the American People and the rule of law would have spoken here in similar circumstance.