Saddam Hussein and the November surprise.

"It's a major achievement for Iraq's young democracy and its constitutional government."
--George W. Bush



Truly, what other image could spell out so clearly what it means to "replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law"?

An interesting excerpt from the press:

"You now have absolute proof that you've got an independent judiciary in Iraq," White House spokesman Tony Snow told NBC television.

Snow also rejected any speculation that the administration had influenced the timing of the trial verdict in Baghdad to boost Bush's Republicans in the election.

"I mean, the idea is preposterous," Snow told CNN's "Late Edition," denying that the White House had been "scheming and plotting."

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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih also dismissed any US role in the timing of the trial judgment, using the same language as the White House spokesman.

"I think it's preposterous," Salih said in an interview with CNN. He said the "judicial process here has proven to be professional."

With two such distinguished personalities assuring on their words as gentlemen that the idea is (all together now) PREPOSTEROUS, why, we would have to be some kind of barbarians to doubt them. Wouldn't we?

A thought: if the sentence is carried out, and Saddam Hussein is "hanged by the neck until he is dead," as the old legal phrase used to put it, will it be televised?

Stay tuned!