God Bless America. May the enemies of the United States realize their fate. Saddam Hussein should have been grateful; to be "fair", his execution should have taken place in a vat of acid, the same as his many prisoners.

Okay john, crawl out from under the rock. The death of Saddam was done by Iraqis only and Bush had nothing to do with it. Your throwing crap on the wall to see how much will stick.

Each to his destiny.

Unfortunately, Saddams hanging is far overshadowing the death and funeral of a U.S. President. Which will be the bigger news next year..remembering the death of Gerald Ford or the hanging of Saddam?

Mrs Elgert I find it strange that you attack Bush with senseless accusations and then say pray for the best. There have been 3k U.S.soldiers killed in Iraq. Men who volunteered and were armed. In America 3K unborn children are slaughtered daily. Bush has made huge steps to remove this evil. These babies are defenseless and they are gutted by greedy so called doctors who profit on innocent blood. No one cares about them!

No mourning will be done for Saddam. His manner of death was kind and just. My prayers and thoughts are that the victims of his style of "justice" will find peace and freedom in their hearts now that he is dead.

God is in control, and he alone has the right to judge each of us. Hatred eats away at the one hating. Let us move on.

I think three deaths will be remembered during this holiday season. Our GREAT singer of OUR soul, Our former president, and OUR most hated person in Iraq. Sadam got exactly what HE deserved. I guess he would say, an eye for an eye. Who cares what he would say, we lost 2895 people from OUR country, because of a dictator that could not pass a mirror without looking into it to see his sorry face. As to his sorry mistress that had the nerve, and life left to speak about this sorry...I feel she should be in the hole next to him. This is simply an opinion.....The right WE as Americans have, unlike some other peoples that are not allowed to express it in writing. Although ALL people have thoughts and feelings, some may never write it for dictators to see.

My condolenses to the Media for the loss of their friend Mr Hussein, (this is what the NYT's calls him) as the Media will report Bush was the one that pulled the lever. I had to laugh at Tim Russert of meet the depressed, he actually ask Richard engel if we knew for sure that the body in the casket was that of Saddam, ha ha. They see conspiracies everywhere. AS a follow up, 200 Americans are being Murdered every month, when will the Media and the democrats call fro removing the Americans from harms way? By the way I am talking about the murder rate in California, Does Murtha want to "reposition" anything there?

Now the tyrant is gone and the world will be at half peace since they are others still around us. Go well tryrant and bye for now.....

Is the Mission Accomplished yet?

Imagine Saddam's surprise when he learns that there are no 72 virgins and unlimited dates and walnuts waiting for him in the afterlife.

Can't wait til the rest of these morons discover that their deity is about as real as the one Tom Cruise and John Travolta worship. At least Scientologists don't cut off people's heads and march up and won the streets with one hand flailing about while the other carries the portrait of some unknown bearded guy against a green backdrop.

I can't say that he didn't deserve what he got, it's not for me to judge. He was most definitely not a nice person. But if killing is wrong... what the hell are we doing? "An eye for an eye..."? do we still live in the days of the Old Testement? Is the Golden Rule, Do unto other's before they do undo us?

And to partisan ourselves as Republicans vs Democrats is just compounding our problems as a country and feeding ammunition to "our enemies". We must as a country come togather with one voice for the rest of the world to take us seriously. This means that we must live up to our "ideals" not just pay lip service to them. There must be an emphasis on ethics from the Presidency on down to those of us working stiffs - From the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the lowest buck private.

But I fear that most of us are only interested in where the next dollar is coming from and getting home in time to watch some one make a fool of themselves at an American Idol audition.

Now that I'm done someone else can use this soap box...

i think saddam should have died at the hands of those effected by his acts.i'm not a supporter of the death penalty per se,but "an eye for an eye" i am a beleiver ,but it would'nt work in saddams case it would have to be slow torture.and thats just for having the cheek to drink scotch. as for god is great "he won't be sayin'that now"+he was mentally ill along with most of his followers.he says he's a martyr? he hid in a drain where he belonged +all who he excecuted will be waiting for him with the vigins he killed...god is great,keep it to youself,religion kills!

The death of another tyrant; human history is replete with tyrants, dictators, and despots who have killed, tortured, raped and maimed hundreds, thousandths, and even millions. Some of those dictators/tyrants lived on to old age or succumbed to illness, others committed suicide, while still others had their life ended by some executing device.
Now, in the era of the computer, the internet, the cellphone and the television, we have seen a trial, a conviction, a sentencing, and an execution of a man who was once so powerful, but also powerfully corrupt.
Moreover, the USA (the federal government, via President Reagan, principally) was on his side for sometime, thus supplying him with intelligence and military hardware necessary to fend off our enemy, Iran. So, back then, the USA, I guess, did not care that he was torturing and killing innocents with some of our own weapons fabricated here in the gool old US of A. But all of a sudden we did care. And when he was finally no longer a geo-political necessity to our nation, we gave him up to the wolves. I mean those palaces where he dined with his mistress and smoked those montecristos were not built in a day; we knew what he was up to all that time, but we did nothing about it because it was to our geopolitical advantage not to do so. So we let him have his party and his fun until we said that was enough; let him hang.
In the end, we may discover that Saddam may not really be dead after all; he may one day, thirty years from now perhaps, surface on some T shirts, baseball caps, coffee mugs, belt buckles and stickers, just like Che, just like Mao.
So to all the dictators and tyrants that remain in this world, as long as we need you, you will be ok; if not, you'll be dead!

Well, good night to all. It is a new year, and almost a new decade. Peace to all.

Do you know why so many people have went to view the video of the hang, it is because people needed to see it for themselves it was a case where "you have to see it to believe it". I don't know if I do still after viewing the whole video, I think there should of been someone there more trust worthy then "his people". He had the money to wish away everything, everyone one says he is gone, but where is the money. He might be gone but it isn’t in the ground.

So Saddam is now Dead. You all think we're safe now since he's been excecuted? Remember there is another evil person that's out there that has caused a massive death by ramming planes into our twin towers and the pentegon. Also lets not forget flight 93 crashing in Pa. We still have that crazy nut out there preaching his vision of how the world should be. Yep you got it right it's Bin Laden. The threat is not over untill he pays for his crimes for thousands of murders he had commited. You're next Bin Laden!!!!!!! May God have mercy on your soul when we find you.

It was disgusting how the former head of state/gov’t--Mr. Hussein--was treated at the execution. For one, I am not condoning his previous behavior, but as a human being he should be afforded a decent and fair trial--which he was not. His trial, like his death sentence, was rushed and seemed to be an act of retribution on the part of the Iraqi government now mainly comprised of Shiite. The very act of executing this "evil" man will give him life in the future. I ask have we forgotten bin Laden?

Saddam's dead now...is the Mission Accomplished yet? Can we take down the banner?