Today there is one fewer Arrogant Jerk on the planet.
Convicted of killing 148 Shiite men and boys, Saddam was literally rushed to the gallows where he was hanged almost faster than you can say ‘corrupt dictator’.
I am not one to celebrate death, reflecting on my own mortality in rare times such as this. However, Saddam was such an Arrogant Jerk that I dare say he deserved every painful struggle as he dangled from the rope, gasping for his last breath.
Saddam, in recent times, has appeared on TV and in newsprint as an aged man. Sad and distraught, he may have even worked to project an image of ‘why me?’.
I will tell you ‘why him’; although he was ‘only’ convicted of killing 148 people, estimates hold him responsible for killing thousands of individuals. Some by terrible chemical burns, some by suffocation, some by execution, and many others by methods only rumored to have occurred during the Holocaust.
I have personally seen disturbing film of men carrying out Saddam’s orders by duct-taping a man at his hands and feet, and then tossing him off a two story building. The fall not quite enough to kill him right away. Stories I have heard include terrible disfigurement and real torture (not that phony stuff our boys were doing at Abu Graib). These personal offenses are only outweighed by the global repression of his entire nation, save a select few who walked the line as Baathists.
Like our leading South American Arrogant Jerk, Hugo Chavez, Saddam held millions of dollars (American, by the way) in cash, stuffed away in secret hidden walls (found by the U.S. Army at his residence) while millions of people starved themselves through poverty-stricken lives.
Saddam is no longer with us, and the world is a better place for it. Shame he won’t hear my farewell:
Goodbye you Arrogant Jerk. Goodbye and good riddance. We do not need people like you on our planet.
