Swift Vengeance Never Satisfies:

The wolf is dead, the bad old wolf is dead! Saddam met his fate hours ago in Iraq, hanged for crimes committed, often, with U. S. complicity or, at the least, indifference. Most of the atrocities committed in the U. S. sponsored dictator's name will never be investigated and verified for the public now that the Middle-Eastern Thug-of-Thugs has been hung. Dr. Najmaldin Karim, president of the Washington Kurdish Institute, addresses the issue in an op-ed piece in today's New York Times.

Saddam was convicted for ordering the massacre at Dujail in 1982. Perhaps this particular atrocity was the only safe one to investigate publically. Others might well have brought up complicity, not only on the part of the U. S., but also Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and who knows who else. Saddam's people didn't create the poison gas that was used to murder Iranians, Kurds, and Shiites while the rest of the world turned a blind eye.

"The only morality a government ever recognizes is that which leads to self-preservation." – Anon.

"I did not strike that man, he ran his chin into my fist." – Defendent in barroom brawl.