funeralcrasher | Will the real barbarian please stand up!

So rawstory has announced the televised hanging of Saddam Hussein.. CNN is planning to air the public execution as well.

What lesson is learned here? Without assigning innocence to Hussein for murdering hundreds of people, look what we have done to Iraq in the years following his removal. More US soldiers have been wrongfully sacrificed in Iraq than people killed on 9/11. Tens of thousands of Iraqi people have been murdered, executed, tortured, blown up and shot to death since Saddam was removed. As awful as he was, Hussein kept relative stability in the region. Could he have been changed into a less brutal dictator? Ask Moammar Qaddafi.

I'm not celebrating this killing.

I fail to see any good coming from the actions of the US Government in Iraq in recent years and this death is not going to change any of that. If anything it marks the brutal incompetence and lack of foresight shown by President Cheney & Vice President Bush.