Adios, Saddam Redux

My post about the Saddam Hussein execution from last night elicited a thoughtful reader comment, to which I responded, so check it out again. Meanwhile there is some other interesting reaction in the blogosphere.

Via Serge, we learn that powerful people may have wanted Saddam gone for their own personal reasons. Dead men tell no tales. Indeed, it would have been interesting had he exposed the various Westerners who supported his murderous regime for their own profit.

Steve Hayes finds it ironic that even as we are all hailing Gerald Ford for the courageous act of pardoning Richard Nixon for his crimes, we gave no thought to pardoning Saddam.

The London Telegraph has a long story, almost obituary-like, about Saddam.

Here is video of the event. It cuts off before he drops, but I bet that footage will leak out soon.

A roundup of liberal comments from PoliticalDishonesty.com