Is execution valid ?

I simply do not know. It is fast approaching that time when an announcement will come that Sadam is no more. Here I am still undecided whether this might just be beginning of the end for the Iraqi state as we know it. Maybe better to split it into three and have done with it. Create a mass movement of peoples and see if that will end the chaos ? Although given the shining beacon of peace and collaboration Korea became after a divide maybe it's not such a great idea and who can forget the lasting peace forged from the India & Pakistan accords.

I believe the call will come quickly, the wires will light up with "Sadam executed" and then we will all wait, for the next car bomb, the next road side IED. Clearly the administration is hoping that slotting him now might help draw a line under 2006 and his regime and begin Eed in a post Saddam Iraq. I often wonder whether I was right to argue for action in Iraq. Whether now when I insist in discussions that I will not weaver, that it was right. It is a good thing that of the three main reasons for war his removal was valid and supportable.

Whomever you believe about the numbers killed post conflict, the back scatter from the war, 38,000 or 380,000. Whilst this is terrible, whilst my usual calls of "In war people die" it is a great many people. Still no way near the possible million plus that, died in his conflicts, his wars, his executions at the hands of his regime by solider following his orders. The self declared Iraqi foundation, here have a quick account of the best part of 1*10^6 persons.

On the one hand you have an evil despicable man ruling in the most abhorrent manner. However in the same vein as the likes of Tito, this man kept order. Much like the African warlords in those dusty little countries it wasn't a fair order, but it was none the less an order. Offing him will please, overall, the majority of the population, if you take that all his supporters are nearly definitely Sunni, the minority populous. Next to the Marsh Arabs, the Kurds and the Shiites. Maybe his end could bring about the ability for those majority ruling parties to work together to bring Iraq back from the brink of a long and bloody civil conflict that could easily through the numbers of dead definitely in Sadam's bloody favour. If the worst happens, could end up being that he killed less after all.

Some argue a better punishment for his crimes would to have him rebuild Iraq. Chain gang style. Ignoring the ridiculous security implications, he wasn't on trial for the destruction of Iraq. He wasn't on trial for wasting the allowed Oil for Food money on palces and gold and gum ball machines. He was on trials for 148 reasons. That being the execution and murder in retaliation to an attempted assassination attempt. These charges with a guilty sentence don't allow for him to get extended community service by building a school or water pump. They mandate death. I don't think you can invade a sovereign nation to restore its freedoms then overrule it, when you think you have a better idea.

For now we wait.