These bastards stay silent while same despots massacre thousands.

youre right, but it was not very clever to hang him on Eid al-Adha, and not so clever to hang him generally. He should have been send to prison. Death is no penality.

These bastards stay silent while same despots massacre thousands.

You mean the USA? They stayed silent when he was gassing the kurds and shites.

pishisaurus, I think you have missed the point of the article. The point is, if Saddam was going to be executed, why do it in such a way as to be calculated to inflame the situation as much as possible? Because that's exactly how it went down.

Here's an idea. Let's set up focus groups comprised of 7th century mindset retrograde nutcase islamofascists and run various considered options past them in deciding the course of action they deem best.

The insane don't respond well to sane options. This is why we call them insane. These fools would have freaked regardless.

Wrong, GD, sorry, check your facts, kiddo.