[Southack]

This ridiculous hand-wringing is unpersuasive. Hussein was tried, convicted, had an appeal, lost, and was hung.

He's not the first, nor will he be the last, tyrant to be jeered at during the execution of his sentence. Certainly the effeminate Europeans remained devoid of this sort of limp-wristed hand-wringing as they executed Italy's Premier Mussolini around the time that Hussein himself was born.

Frankly, the global Left wanted Hussein to remain alive so that his Ba'athist insurgents would continue to wage their terror war as ardently as possible...so that the American Right would be dealt a political blow at the expense of American blood.

But that's hardly a reason to keep Hussein alive.

Gee, some people chanted or yelled at Saddam before and while he swung from a rope. Yeah, like that's never happened before in *any* nation criticizing last month's hanging.

Get over it.

[21stCenturyFreeThinker]

Frankly, the global Left wanted Hussein to remain alive so that his Ba'athist insurgents would continue to wage their terror war as ardently as possible...so that the American Right would be dealt a political blow at the expense of American blood.

If it were only American politics you might be right. But the real problem is Iraqi politics.

[ReignOfError]

Europeans remained devoid of this sort of limp-wristed hand-wringing as they executed Italy's Premier Mussolini

The allies didn't execute Mussolini. A communist lynch mob did. That's kind of the point.

In the end, it doesn't matter whether Saddam suffered or what he deserved. What matters both to the Iraqis and to America's interests is establishing the rule of law, not a cycle of sectarian revenge. To the degree that Saddam's execution looks like emotional payback rather than a cool-headed application of the law, it's a setback to that cause.