Saddam's Fate: What I wrote in 2005

NBC News is reporting that Saddam Hussein will be executed by Sunday.

Here's what I wrote about Saddam's trial and execution in September 2005:

First, it would satisfy the desire of Iraq's new leaders to dispose of Saddam quickly. If Saddam is convicted of the Dujail massacre, he can be executed immediately.

Secondly, a trial for the Dujail massacre is likely to result in a death sentence for Saddam without there ever being a public discussion of the U.S.'s long support for regime change.

Put Saddam on trial for using chemical weapons against Iran, and someone's bound to mention that the United States actively supported him during that conflict, funneling him cash and dispatching the U.S. Navy to the Persian Gulf to keep Iran's navy in check.

Put Saddam on trial for using chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds, and it's likely that someone (other than me) is gonna start talking about the fact that not only did the United States know of the attacks and approve of them, but Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld actually met with Saddam in 1983 on behalf of the Reagan administration. Rumsfeld told Saddam that we didn't mind who he killed or how, as long as he beat Iran in the Iran-Iraq War.

I'm not psychic. The Bush Administration and it's puppets in Iraq are just pathetic and predictable.

I'm not sad that Saddam Hussein will die. That fucker launched missiles at my family. But I'm upset that the very people who supported him for so long will claim a moral victory upon his execution and that the mainstream media will parrot them without question.