The War and the Execution

From Associated Baptist Press:

The botched execution of Saddam Hussein revealed the depths to which Iraq has sunk and the seeming hopelessness of our efforts there.

When we invaded Iraq and removed Saddam Hussein, we ended a tyranny. But so far we have been unsuccessful in implanting a real democracy or the culture that goes with it. Instead, we have created the conditions in which a country that had been held together by fear of Saddam Hussein is now fragmenting into a country held together by nothing at all.

It was not a democratic Iraqi state, operating according to the coolly rational standards of law and respecting the dignity of all of its citizens, that executed Saddam Hussein. It was instead a gleeful mob of Iraqi Shiites, celebrating the downfall of their enemy and mocking him to his death.

I don’t see how we can justify the death of one more American soldier in the cause of a “democracy” such as the one on display at the execution of Saddam Hussein. Let’s bring the troops home.