The execution of Saddam Hussein was carried out a couple of hours ago by the Iraqi government. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity in the slaughter of 148 men and boys in a Shiite village following an assassination attempt on Saddam's life in the early 1980s.
But what of his 100,000 other victims?
My feelings on the death penalty notwithstanding, this sentence should have been delayed until the entire picture of Saddam's atrocities was known and he was held to account for every single life that he and his cronies took.
148 victims out of 100,000 were given justice. That amounts to less than 1% of 100,000 murder cases against Saddam.
He should have been forced to hear the names of every one of his enemies that he had murdered before any sentence was carried out. Now that will never happen.
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