Saddam

While I certainly endorsed the death penalty for Saddam Hussein, now that it has been delivered by a mockery of a judicial procedure, I am completely opposed to it. When he was caught he should have been thoroughly interrogated (sans torture, natch), then had a secret military hearing and executed by firing squad.

Instead the whole rule of law is being mocked by this trial (which is to be expected in a land where we have forbidden the people with any administrative experience from having the slightest participation in the new government).

Saddam is a bad guy, but he was the just about the best leader the Arab world had to offer. Right now, the best way to extract ourselves from the situation is to completely dump the GOP (and not for the Democrats, rather for the Falange), apologize for the transgressions of the liberal democrats (lowercase "d"), show our good intentions by sending all of them to work camps, rescue Saddam and put him in charge of a Sunni Arab state, keep the Shiite areas independent, and get our troops out of there. Let the Mohammedans fight nicely amongst themselves.

Ramsey Clark could be our ambassador to the area.