The lynching of Saddam Hussein -- for that is what we are talking about -- will turn out to be one of the determining moments in the whole shameful crusade upon which the West embarked in 2003. Only the president-governor George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara could have devised a militia administration in Iraq so murderous and so immoral that the most ruthless mass murderer in the Middle East could end his days on the gallows as a figure of nobility, scalding his hooded killers for their lack of manhood and -- in his last seconds -- reminding the thug who told him to "go to hell" that the hell was now Iraq.
"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it," Malcolm reported of the execution of the treacherous Thane of Cawdor in Macbeth. Or, as a good friend of mine in Ballymena said to me on the phone a few hours later, "The whole bloody thing was obscene." Quite so.
What an idiot.
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