SADDAM HUSSEIN EXECUTION CAMERAMAN ARRESTED

This past Sunday in The Sunday Commentary I wrote that one of the obvious predictions of 2007 would be that like a bad penny Saddam Hussein despite his execution would not go away. Here we are in only the third day of the New Year and this prediction came to pass even sooner than I had expected as he is one of the top headlines in today's news. A video of the execution that was taken on a cell phone has been circulating on the web and has attracted considerable attention especially with those who have been celebrating the death of the Butcher of Baghdad. Along with the celebration that the video has sparked there have been continued calls for an investigation into who took the video and in the taunting that took place during the execution. Today an anonymous source in the Iraqi government has stated that a high official in the government who was present at the execution has been arrested and is being questioned for taking the video. Let's get real here, what is the big deal about taunting Hussein who brutally killed hundreds of thousands of people during his reign as dictator of Iraq ? Does telling this animal , "go to Hell, " a place that had already been reserved for the murdering scum constitute taunting ? Aw did it hurt his wittle feewings before he dropped through the floor ? Also one would think with the continued fear by many Iraqis that Hussein is not really dead and is waiting somewhere to return and the rumors by the conspiracy nuts that this was a body double the Iraqi government would be pleased that this video surfaced showing that this monster is truly dead. The official who is being detained for taking the video was held for insighting sectarian violence by taking and posting the video on the web. Again let's get real here ! These factions do not need this video to create violence because they have been doing this to each other for a thousand years and this video is but one more excuse to continue something that is in their blood. Getting up on the wrong side of the bed or their milk being slightly warmer for their breakfast is more than enough reason in their mind to create violence so this video has not added or taken away from any insighting of violence. It has only been proof positive to a people who desperately wanted to see this man dead and gone. Sure the Sunnis are mad because with the end of Saddam went the end of their reign as supreme tribe though they are a minority. They do not like it not so much because they thought Saddam was a great friend and their sworn leader but because his favor for them gave them privileges and perks that they will not have in a free Democracy where all Iraqis are treated equal. This sugar coating of his execution and the attempt in recent days to try and show the , "softer, " side of Saddam in order to make him look human is getting ridiculous. Remember Hitler was an artist and enjoyed painting but that did not stop him from killing six million Jews. His execution should have been held in a public square as it was in the old west or even Victorian England so the entire country could have watched either in person or by a televised event. Saddam did not hesitate to kill, mame, rape or torture anyone and for the world to complain that this monster was mistreated and that the release of his execution in video was wrong is taking political correctness to a dangerous and ridiculous extreme. The monstrous Butcher of Baghdad is dead and Iraq need no longer fear his return or his rule. That is something to celebrate not hide, sugar coat or condemn.

Ken Taylor