Saddam: Requiem for a bastard
Hunter said it best:
Saddam is dead. Another tin-cup Ozymandias, another man in history unworthy of the sand that covers him. Truly and without remorse, good riddance. He follows hundreds of thousands of better souls who, unlike him, deserved none of it. Let his requiem be a brief verbal farting of Fox News pundits, followed by the silence of eternity. May the rest of us deserve better fates.
God, I just saw the video. Hussein is the only dignified-looking person in the room - beginning to end. Heckava job, Bushie.
Here's the other thing that struck me about the event: I have not read two accounts of it that are the same. In each one, various participants are revealed to have said various things, all different. Twenty people, twenty different accounts.
Rashomon, baby, Rashomon.