Saddam hanging
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If this is a war, I really don't see why Billy Joe GI who found Saddam didn't just put a bullet in his head and get it over with.
'We' were always going to find him guilty. 'We' were always going to go through these judicial theatricals, naively assuming that, somehow, our enlightened Western mores would maintain the unity of the fractured Iraqis.
Rather, all we have done is eke out an already destructive situation, keep Saddam ever present in the collective consciousness, empowering his old supporters and giving carte blanche for every other ascendant powermongers to wreak havoc to effect their own flavour of change.
If this is war, we should have just cut off the head. Brutal and amoral, maybe - but that is war.
If he is to be hanged now, so be it - but let's just get it done, stop shouting about it and never bloody celebrate it - we're not fucking medieval.