Abu Wabu

Michelle Malkin on Saddam's hanging. Includes the Uncut Video, Jeff Goldstein, Andy McCarthy, and Gateway Pundit.

A.C. McCarthy:

I had to turn off the TV-news.

This is a solemn, important moment. It's not a joyous one. An evil man deserved to die. His elimination was necessary — not close to sufficient, but necessary — for achieving, over time, a semblance [of] civilized stability in Iraq...

...This wasn't victory. It didn't end suffering. It was, in the heat of a war that has actually gotten more vicious and more uncertain since Saddam's capture three years ago, the carrying out of an essential but unpleasant duty. It marginally enhances Iraq's propects, and ours. But Saddam's death (as opposed to his deposing) has no impact whatsoever on the deep dysfunction and hatred that is rending what passes for Iraqi society...

...Saddam's death is a marker worth observing. It is not something to go up in a balloon over.

I respectfully disagree. It is crucially important to hammer home Saddam's execution to Iran and Syria as the fate their leaders will meet as well, if only the people there will coalesce to offer them up. I appreciate McCarthy's caution, but I like what Saddam's hanging tells the rest of that part of the world: justice is coming.

Stiff upper lip there, Andrew.