R.I.P. (?)
Saddam is dead. On the whole, I think that's an improvement for civilization. He was a madman who killed way too many people.
But.
I flip on Letterman, Leno, and morning talk shows and I hear joke after joke about the hanging. Mention the hanging and the crowd cheers it's approval. Doesn't that seem wrong to anyone else? Think of how you felt when you saw the pictures of Al Qaeda cheering the destruction of the towers and the deaths of 3000 people. Weren't they evil, angry, immoral people when they did that? How is cheering the death of Saddam any different? If you turn the tables, we're behaving just as poorly as they did.
So yes, I personally think that we're better off without Saddam, but you're not going to find me cracking jokes about it.