For personal motives and revenge of some past.. Saddam was killed at the hands of buthchers..He was killed coz he did not bend in front of bush. (nothing to do with America. or its policies)it was a pre planned motive for oil and personal revenge.Most Americans with good history knew this.It was war against weapons of Mass destruction is int it??? Where are these weapons now??/ dd they finally found that before hanging Saddam.The court and hiring was done by Iraqis I agree infact we all agree but it was written by slaves of one single MAN (B).Even if Saddam would have been guilty thsi was no way of hanging him.He was not given a fair trial.. he did not spk anything. It was done all under 4 walls. Y ? Y ? Y?y did this happen and still everybosy is silent abt this..Unnecessary killings and wars .. I this the war for feace???Now what happened to Iraq who is taking care of post war incidents?A divide and rule policy was applied , leaving poor still developing country in a night mare.Shame on everybodyKeep using the money on wars what else we could expect ither than bad economy and worst hit recessions..

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INVADERS OF DICTIONARYSome three years back I made a comment on the rediff pages, more out of speculation than from intuition that Saddam Hussain would slip from his captivity into eternity. Did I go wrong ? The above surmise is in contrast to Saddam���s own intuition a couple of months back when he asserted that the US may reinstate him on their own, in order to quell the violence that was spreading ominously and gradually engulfing the whole of Iraq. The same Saddam Hussain, upon awarded the death penalty on Sunday, invoked God with his ���Allah ho Akbar��� and shouted ���Down with the invaders���. Invaders, did he say ? Then, what was he about on the 2nd of August, 1990 ?Back in his cell, he certainly must be reminiscing with regret the grueling sequence of events that made the US ultimately enter Iraq after chasing his military might away from Kuwait. How mercifully he was spared the ignominy of being dethroned from his made to believe invincible post of President after his ���Mother of all battles��� backfired. The sarcastic chuckle he must have been enjoying subsequently at the cost of UN inspectors, who were made to shuttle back and forth with Saddam making all sorts of allegations, trying to steal time off to shift the left overs of his WMD ammunitions from one part of the country to the other. All these must have provided him with some solace to jeer with the ���fools, for I also had my hour, one far fierce hour and sweet���. He surely must have been reckoning with regret at the offer of safe passage into a peaceful exile to live a life to his heart���s content as a free man, but which offer he spurned with his ���I shall not run away���. Indeed, the brave President that he was, stayed put in Iraq only to surface at the beckoning of American soldiers with his emphatic ���I am the President of Iraq ��� I want to negotiate���.The same president of Iraq, while arguing on the need that compelled him to order chemical attack on Kurdish civilians, the torture and butcher of shiites, the scores of crimes he committed right till the last man who provided information to US about Saddam���s whereabouts and whose tongue was cut off and made to die bleeding, could have saved his own skin as also the lives of his sons Qasi and Uday, and lived happily ever after, had he but consented to the suggestion of US to go in to exile. The same Saddam Hussain who had the whole of Iraq behind him in large numbers carrying his portrait and yelling ���Death to US��� if ever they dared to attack his country, today stands reduced to an ordinary human being shaken at being handed down the sentence by none other than a Judge from same Kurdish tribe, who were made to suffer at his hands.Has Saddam outlived his utility ? Will the US haunt Saddam Hussain for having rejected the offer of exile or will they finally give him a lease of another life ?Answers to these and similar questions will best be possible once the Al Qaida and other terrorist outfits come forward with their own reaction to what Saddam has earned through years of his defiance.