How Not to Hang a Dictator
When you look at the mobile phone camera footage of Saddam Hussein's execution, and think to yourself: "What a sad and undignified end, though he holds himself well," you know things have gone badly wrong. For years he was the West's biggest bogeyman - now even he is a martyr.
If that's not enough, rumours are beginning to circulate of an Iranian hand in the Iraqi government. It could all be part of the Sh'ia revival. It couldn't backfire more for the US. Welcome to 2007...
