A Koran in one hand, and hoodless. * [1] By his own choice. Defiant to the end, but reports say he was scared. Well, of course he was scared! He was about to find out the Ultimate Answer, whether or not there is an afterlife, or....something else.
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Something else for his life of brutality. Something besides a quick yank, and then...blessed nothingness? If that is true, then his punishment wasn't death, it was the lead-up to death. That's when it all comes home, I suppose, when one has the time to contemplate The End.

State-run Iraqiya television news announcer said "criminal Saddam was hanged to death and the execution started with criminal Saddam then Barzan then Awad al-Bandar."

Mariam al-Rayes, a legal expert and a former member of the Shiite bloc in parliament, told Iraqiya television that the execution "was filmed and God willing it will be shown. There was one camera present, and a doctor was also present there."

News reports say that in Dearborn, Michigan, Iraqi Americans celebrated [2] the death of the dictator. Outside, traffic slowed as people drove in circles around the mosque, honking horns and flashing peace signs. "This is our celebration of the death of Saddam, "The gift of our New Year is the murder of Saddam Hussein. If you want to share the Iraqi people's happiness for the death of Saddam, raise your voice and your hands." and chants of 'Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead..' Sorry, actually the quote is "Now there's peace, Saddam is dead"

Peace, huh? Not exactly. A realization by the majority of Humanity that Hussein (or Stalin, or Hitler, or Pol Pot, or whoever) is truly a murderous dictator is never enough for another fragment of humanity who has lost a hero. Saddam Hussein will be avenged...by someone, in a never ending cycle of vengence and revengence. That, my friend, is the human way.