Just what I wanted for my Birthday

Well, I finally got what I wanted for my Birthday, Saddam’s head on a plate.  Sure, it may be a little simple, but I like simple, and I figure that a world leader is only entitled to kill 100,000 people before he deserves the death penalty.  I’m glad they gave him a traitors death instead of a heros’ death.  Hanging him for the killing of his own countrymen is retribution.

 Now the interesting part, this means that people should be held accountable for the deaths which they cause.  So what about other world leaders who cause the deaths of their own countrymen?  Sure, maybe not directly, but what if they act in a negligent or reckless manner and cause people to die? (yeah, i’m talking about the pre-war planning for Iraq).

But here are my predictions, the North and South of Iraq will experience a small peace dividend as a result.  There will be some small amount of peace in these regions.  The middle of Iraq, the Sunni part, will experience an increase in violence for a short period following the holiday of Eid Al-Adha, presumably because of Saddam, but in reality because there is no other good reason to fight.

Of course, this doesn’t change what we need to do in Iraq, get out of the cities, do what armies are designed to do, fight in the open, leave the urban fighting to the police.  Set up border security and kill anything except bedouins trying to cross the border and therefore provide a secure environment for the Iraqis to form an Iraqi government.