SADDAM’S EXECUTION IS JUSTICE FOR DUJAIL

At the New York Post, John Byrne, a sergeant who worked with the Shiites to tell their story in front of the court, tells his story.

December 30, 2006 — ‘Hello, my friend!”

“America good!”

“Bush good, good!”

“Saddam donkey!”

Phrases like those would greet me on my nearly daily trips to the city of Dujail in 2004. The sentiments of the Shiite majority were clear in the town’s small but bustling center: America was welcome. To these people, Saddam Hussein was evil and - hard as it may be for some Americans to imagine - George Bush was a hero.

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Update: Stephen Decatur has his synopsis at The Islamic Threat, which is very revealing:

Before hanging Saddam tries to say the Shahada but the Shia followers of the religion of peace do not allow him his Shahada and drop him before he finishes. That is equivalent to preventing somebody from getting last rites. The Shias around him were chanting for Moqtada Al Sadr, their would be dictator version of Saddam. One of the guards is begging them to stop and they insist. Then chaos insues as they apparently want to mutilate his body but they are prevented. Anyway, the dictator is dead and he got what he deserved.