Why Do We Care About Saddam?

After a lengthy trial, guilty verdict, conviction to die and gallows hanging, the world continues to be fascinated by Saddam Hussein. Why?

At his hands thousands of his own people, mostly innocents, were tortured and killed. In the final hours, our own government tried to postpone Saddam's execution for fear the timing of his death would cause a upheaval among Iraqi citizens. Go figure. Don't you think the Iraqi government knows its people well enough to determine when and how and where a former dictator should be hanged?

And now, thanks to a sneaky cell phone with video capability, we can all go on the Web and watch Saddam meet his maker. Big deal. On any given night of the week our minor children sit on their sofas at home and scroll through 800 channels, many of which feature TV shows that include dismemberment, death and destruction -- often in animation designed to captivate and humor them.

Saddam is dead. A death that was long overdue, even if the Catholic church's position is that he should be spared because he's one of God's children. If George Bush #1 had the cajones to get the job done back in the '90s, Saddam would have been long forgotten. But today, he's one less tyrant bent on insanity who walks the earth spreading his vile orders. We should all move on.

Where's Osama?

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