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For many who survived Saddam's monstrous regime, his ignoble end was no more than he deserved. But the unseemly scenes from the gallows, captured by a clandestine camera phone and broadcast to an aghast world, were also a reminder of what has come since he was removed from power...
So what, in the end, did Saddam bequeath to his people? Some of Iraq's new demons were spawned by him. Remnants of his regime dominate the Sunni insurgency and many jihadist groups. Some of the Shi'ite anger that fuels the current sectarian war can be traced to the...
The question is whether the sectarian tumult surrounding his execution will lend Saddam a new stature, allowing his loyalists to portray him not as a convicted killer but as a victim, mercilessly lynched by a vengeful, U.S.-backed Shi'ite government. Indeed, some have been planning to do so all...
Well, not so fast. It's true that no Americans were actually present at the gallows when it became a sectarian shop of horrors. Though there are serious questions about whether Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki abided by Iraq's own laws when he decided to speed up the execution...
The U.S.'s complicity in Saddam's execution dates back to 2003, when the Administration refused to consider the establishment of an international tribunal to try Saddam and his henchmen. Even before the fall of Baghdad, State Department working groups had begun drafting plans to prosecute Baathist leaders for war...