Death of Saddam

Videos of the hanging of Saddam are available on the net. I'm not going to look for them, not because I'm squeamish, which I'm not, but because I believe that the people who want us to witness this thing are beneath contempt. Speaking of whom, I imagine that Cheney and Bush will get their rocks off on it. The following is lifted from Shakespeare's Sister's blog:

This whole endeavor, from the very start, has been about taking tawdry, cheap acts and dressing them up in a papier-mache grandeur -- phony victory celebrations, ersatz democratization, reconstruction headed up by toadies, con artists and grifters. And this is no different. Hanging Saddam is easy. It's a job, for once, that these folks can actually see through to completion. So this execution, ironically and pathetically, becomes a stand-in for the failures, incompetence and general betrayal of country on every other front that President Bush has brought us.

...This is what we're reduced to, what the president has reduced us to. This is the best we can do. Hang Saddam Hussein because there's nothing else this president can get right.

How could anyone put it better?