Let’s get one thing straight. Saddam Hussein was one of the worlds most colossal asses. There is little doubt that he was a vicious, brutal and merciless human being that subjected millions of his own people to brutal savagery under his despotic rule.

Some 6 or so hours ago he was given the Christmas gift of being strung up by his neck until he was dead. And in this era of a world obsessed with reality TV, networks were falling over each other to broadcast footage of the schmuck being led to the gallows and the noose being put around his neck.

But I for one do not believe that Saddam should have been hanged. If anything the hanging raisers more questions than answered

Why?

1. Tell me, precisely what has been achieved by this hanging? I hear talk about closure. What closure? How will stringing up his mangy hide bring back the loved ones lost? What satisfaction can be derived from this?
2. Those people who came up with shotgun weddings can also add shotgun hangings to the list. Can you spell rushed? Why? Did the noose have an expiry date of 1 January 2007? Could the hands controlling the marionettes from across oceans have a hand to play?
3. Hanging Saddam merely infuriates his Shiite supporters still further and all this pointless act will achieve is even greater levels of infighting and civil war.
4. Most importantly, Saddam did VERY MANY unspeakable things in his long and un-illustrious rule. The only person who knows all the grisly things Saddam Hussein did in great detail is Saddam Hussein. And now that he is dead, all that information is lost as well. There are things that Saddam did that we will now never know.As Saint Peter looks over his books Saddam must be thinking “Who’s laughing now?”
5. I have always thought that execution was a very easy way out. There is simply no punishment better than living with the consequences  your actions.

So if you find yourself celebrating Saddam’s death, think long and hard if it is really worth celebrating.

It isn’t.

Lupe Fiasco & Jill Scott – Daydream