Saddam

Obviously, Saddam is a very, very bad man. But if he was still in
power, Iraqis wouldn't be getting slaughtered in the streets by roving
bands of professional ethnic cleaners. Granted, free-thinkers and
opposition politicians would be getting their heads chopped off (or
whatnot) in secret prisons. But there are a lot less of those folks
than there are random, every day citizens who happen to be the wrong
ethnicity in the wrong place at the wrong time. And those secret
prisons are now run by the CIA, and those sociopaths--our
sociopaths--may not be beheading political prisoners, but they are
water-boarding them, ripping out their finger nails, and sticking
electrodes on their penises and zapping them every time they refuse to
say where the guns are hidden. Monkey see, monkey do. Sigh. I wonder
if anyone will feel better when Saddam's neck is broken and his eyes
fill with blood. Will that bring anyone's son back? Will history be
changed? Will those mass graves be emptied? Will it make W feel better
about his dad losing the 1992 election? Will people be more free? Will
the radical Muslims who hate Americans throw out their guns, dismantle
their bombs, and kiss their wives? Will I stop having nightmares about
September 11th? The answer to all of these questions is: No.