Saddam Hussein is DEAD! Bye-Bye Saddam!

As I’m putting fingers to keyboard, the world is still reeling over the news that it has awaited for years now...

Saddam Hussein is dead.

For years Saddam Hussein was thumbing his nose at the world. No matter who his enemy of the time was, no matter how badly he was beaten, as long as he breathed air and as long as he held even the slightest measure of power in that country, he won. And he let everyone know about that!

When Iraq got their asses kicked by Iran, it didn’t matter because HE was still alive and still in charge. When he was killing his own people, it didn’t matter WHO he pissed off afterwards because HE was still alive and still in charge. When the US forces kicked Iraq out of Kuwait, it didn’t matter how badly the Iraqi forces lost or how humbled they were in battle, because HE was still alive and still in charge. Even when our bombs were raining on his head and our soldiers killed his evil hellspawn sons, it didn’t matter as long as Saddam was still breathing air and holding even the smallest modicum of power.

It was all about HIM! It was ALL about the survival of Saddam Hussein and HIS continued rein of power in that country! Every single human being in the country could be killed and it wouldn't matter as long as he could crawl out of his bunkers and thumb his nose at us and proclaim that "he won." Why? Because he was still breathing air!

And the Baath party officials and the Sunnis certainly played up on it, because as long as people were hating HIM, they themselves were safe. They backed Saddam, and Saddam rewarded that loyalty.

Well guess what? A couple of years ago I was glad to report that we took away Saddam’s freedom as an early Christmas present. Now we get to mark the end of 2006 with the end of Saddam Hussien’s life.

No more excuses. No more escapes. No more body doubles. No more hiding in spider-hole shelters. No more thumbing his nose at the world. Saddam was EXECUTED at 6am Baghdad time, December 30, 2006!

Saddam wasn’t even shot by a firing squad. He died by HANGING like a common citizen would be executed. Only fair since Saddam was never a military officer to begin with, even though he liked to dress up as one. He also liked to dress up as a holy figure, but nobody ever called him Imam. He probably had a whole closet of costumes. Boy Scout, Fireman, French Maid…. We’ll never know, of course, because we bombed all his palaces to crap.

Actually hanging was too good for him, especially for the crimes that he committed, including those that he will never have to stand trail for now. Yes, like many other criminals, Saddam will NEVER face justice for the bulk of crimes that he has committed. Given all of those crimes, by all rights Saddam should have been exposed to the same nerve gas he inflicted on the Kurds, then getting blown to pieces by a Scud missile full if markings left by the survivors of all those he bombed in the Gulf War. And even THAT wouldn’t be enough!

But, no, we’re dealing with “civilized justice”… or at least as civilized as can be in that part of the world. We can only execute him once, so let’s just be happy with it.

I was actually surprised that they would finish the trial and find him guilty in the first place. There seems to be this trend of bad guys dying before serving their sentence. Ken Lay died before he could go to prison and suddenly HIS conviction got expunged. Slobodan Milosevic died before he could be found guilty of genocide. I think just getting to that guilty verdict was a miracle in and of itself, never mind sentencing Saddam to DEATH and never mind getting him TO the gallows to be hanged.

And I’m actually BOTHERED by the editors at the New York Times who decided to nit-pick about Saddam’s trial, calling it a travesty and a mockery of justice. No, the mockery of justice was allowing him to either live or to still hold power after the Gulf War! The mockery was allowing this self-centered thug with a mustache to live long enough to have a sham of a trial to begin with. The mockery was allowing him to continue to pretend that he still carried any kind of weight or authority after he was captured and was put on trial.

Well that’s over with. Saddam Hussein is no more. He is a memory.

And that’s the message that should hopefully sink into the head of the people who have been praying and hoping for his return to power: IT’S OVER! Saddam will NEVER come back to power. He’s finally DEAD, like his two evil hellspawn kids are DEAD. Saddam was not a “holy warrior” any more than our dufus in the White House is a “holy warrior”. And Saddam certainly did not die as a martyr. He died a coward, because that’s what he was. He was a gutless bully coward who couldn’t do anything without his bodyguards and army. This was a man who vowed to fight to the death and to kill himself instead of being captured… only to be captured by US forces with a gun that wasn’t even fired. That’s not a “holy warrior”. That’s a gutless bully coward.

And if by some chance there is a hereafter where cosmic justice does what mortal justice cannot, there is no doubt that Saddam is being rewarded for his crimes by eternal torment; double that of his hellspawn sons; five time that inflicted on his terrorist “friends” Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal; and a thousand times that inflicted on his lackeys and henchmen. May Saddam know nothing but pain and misery for all that he inflicted and all that is inflicted in his name both past, present, and future. And may the survivors of those that he caused evil finally know peace and be allowed to heal so they can move beyond their pain.

An old saying suggests I not speak ill of the dead, but obviously I cannot do that. I will, however, wrap up this little rant by saying something that is good of the gutless bully coward formerly of Baghdad.

Saddam Hussein is dead…
GOOD!