His death marks the final end of his brutal Baathist regime. True, he's been out of power since he was dragged ignominously from his spider hole by courageous and effective U.S. troops. But, as long as he was alive he was still able to inspire fear in Iraqis who have seen him come back before, and hope in his followers who wanted to return to power and were willing to continue to commit daily violence to make that happen.
His death ends all of that, and will allow Iraqis to move forward in building their democracy, post Sadaam. It was an important "milestone" event, as President Bush called it, and was sadly necessary. Not only necessary, but justified by the unspeakable murder Sadaam and his henchman visited on upwards of 300,000 of their subjects. Let's just say his hanging was much more humane than his victims, some of whom were fed into wood chippers while still alive, received. Good riddance.
The topic of Sadaam's impending hanging came up in conversation while I was in Germany on business back in November. My hosts wanted to make sure to convey their deep feelings of opposition. "Sadaam should not be hanged." No one should, they solemly informed me. Their implication in their lecture to me was that America was wrong in supporting the death penalty, even for a murderous dictator, and that we were on the wrong side of morality.
Exuse me? The irony of them lecturing me on that topic was not lost on me. Clearly, their history of launching two aggressive and genocidal wars on the world in the last 100 years has turned them completely pacifist. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. But they are wrong on the topic of just punishment for crimes against humanity. There is a proper place for judgement and justice from the official representatives of so many aggrieved. And Sadaam received that just punishment. Good riddance.
It also hasn't escaped my attention that there are many in America, always on the political left, who hate George Bush more than they hate murderous villans like Sadaam Hussein and who go so far as to actually wish it was Bush swinging instead of Sadaam. Twisted, demented, and distorted. But true. Don't believe me? Here's a quote from a questionaer at a recent press conference hosted by John Edwards, Democrat running for President:
Another questioner, Davey van Greenen, asked Edwards whether Bush should be tried and face the same fate as Saddam. "He should be hanged in public himself," van Greenen said to considerable applause.
To Edward's eternal credit, he repudiated that question with his answer:
"I'll say to you very directly I don't agree with what you just said," Edwards responded, to similar applause.
Lefties, pull your head out of your behind. We are at war. There is an enemy sworn to kill us. We have a President that is aggressively waging the war on offense. And you can't distinguish that act from the genocidal acts of a murderous dictator who had rape and torture rooms as tools to subjugate his own civilian population?
Idiots.
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