The End of Saddam Hussein
He was quoted as saying "Iraq is nothing without me," and he may have been right. Maybe Iraq will divide along sectarian lines, or be taken by Iran and Turkey or others, or any of a dozen scenarios.
Nobody is innocent in all of this, not least of all United States policy, in action and inaction. Saddam's hanging will anger many people, but they are all the right people. Reuters and the AP have already done their 'in-story' editorializing in a most brazen fashion. These organizations and others pray for Saddam to become a Martyr, but to them he was already a martyr. He is not the Twelfth Imam, and nobody thinks he's coming back.
On the other side are most Iraqis and people like me. We were afraid that Saddam would survive long enough for the US to show its exit plan, and Saddam would live to terrorize another day. This was the main motivating fantasy of the enemy based both on past actions of the United States and the preaching of Osama bin Laden.
It would now be a good time to pull Osama out of his cave.
