So now we get to hear all the bleeding hearts condemning the hanging. We get to hear about the minority of people displaying anger over his death. We get to hear about how it should have been life in prison. About how his trial was unfair and the punishment unjust. About how barbaric it was.

Don't come at me with any of that. Don't tell me about injustice. Don't want to hear about  how barbaric the death penalty is. I keep hearing people refer to him as the ex-leader of Iraq. He wasn't a leader. He was a ruler. A tyrant. A murdering thug. Saddam was the very definition of injustice. Saddam was a barbarian.

In all the nail biting and hand wringing out there, the one glaring thing that is never mentioned is the fact that now, finally, the people of Iraq have some sort of closure. It's easy for us over here in the USA to sit back and say they should have this and they should have that. We aren't mentally, physically and emotionally scarred from the decades of brutality he dished out on those people. They are the ones who should have your sympathy. Not Saddam.

He only got a too little too late taste of what he really should have experienced.

He could have been walked through a room full of mustard gas. Could have been allowed to experience the  blistering and burning. The coughing up of blood as it burned his lungs. Could have been publicly raped. Could have had his legs shoved into a wood chipper. Saddam could have experienced a little bit of each of the unspeakable acts that he subjected innocent people to over the years.

But he didn't. That would have been barbaric. That would have been cruel and unjust. 

Instead, he was "mocked" a little and then hanged. Lights out. Swift justice that should have taken place long ago.

I guess in the end it's not about him feeling the pain that others felt. It's not necessarily about the punishment fitting the crime. In the end it seems to be about simply ridding the world, and more importantly, the Iraqi people, of one of the worst the world has seen...

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