Mary Miller Stan

This, and so many other replies to the video, are perfect examples of how entirely unaffected certain people's minds are by not just reality, but by on-video, 20-year-old, verifiable historical events. Regardless of who Saddam Hussein was or wasn't as a human being, the fact is that he was not only composed and defiant in the face of his death sentence (on video here), but he remained composed and defiant through his last breath as he was hanged (widely available video on the internet). All else aside, at no moment during his sentencing, or during his execution, did this man ever flinch. At his hanging, Saddam Hussein refused the black hood. He mocked those heckling him from the assembled onlookers. He condemned the invading US forces. He insulted the guards who insulted him. When asked if he was afraid, he said he was not afraid, as he lived the life of a fighter. He was executed as he recited a prayer from his faith. But, to the midwitted human mind, "Saddam = bad," therefore, "Saddam acted like a coward when he was sentenced to death" and "Saddam faced his death like a coward." They know, deep inside themselves, that they would lose control of their bladder and bowels, then lose consciousness, if they were faced with a similar situation. But, since "Saddam = bad" and "me = good," they self-soothe by inverting the reality they see with their own eyes. Any fully sentient human being with an honest bone in his body should be able to acknowledge that even his worst enemy faced death with composed defiance if, indeed, he did. Saddam Hussein did. These same simpletons will read this post as an unambiguous exaltation of Hussein, rather than an entirely accurate description of recorded - literally video recorded - history. Hopefully they'll also read it as an insult, because it is.