When one door closes, another opens

I see that Saddam Hussein was finally executed. I feel that is good thing and needed to be done. As long as he was alive, then there was the possibility that he might be restored to power. Too many people have died and too much as been sacrificed to date. His execution closes that option. It will force those who want to return to the days of his dictatorship to instead look ahead towards other options.

There are many who feel that his execution was wrong. I don't. I feel it came 15 years, and thousands of deaths too late. Many claim that removing Saddam created more problems that it solved. The claim that because more people have died since he was toppled that when he was the one doing the killing, keeping him in power would have been better.

That opinion is wrong on so many levels. It assumes that things in Iraq and M.E. would have remained static. Who is to say that is true? Why are body counts the only metric? With that logic, then all people should live under oppressive dictatorships in the name of public safety.

Most of the people killed in Iraq since Saddam fell have been murdered at the hands of fellow Iraqis. Not American troops. Not British troops. The government of Iraq, that was elected by the Iraqis themselves has failed to provide any security. That is their fault, not Bush's.

Now that Saddam is gone, there is one more Iraqi that must be brought to justice and executed. That is Sadar, the "cleric" in charge of the Shi'ites of Baghdad. He is a Saddam in the making. He has blood on his hands. He runs his own militia. The Iraqi government needs to take him on and remove him, now. And he needs to be executed. He has no sons to continue his sick monarchy.

But, I don't think they have the guts to do what needs to be done. So the killing will continue until they get tired of it. Pathetic.