Yep, the son of a bitch is still dead. Not a lot of new information at this point but that doesn't mean I can't relish the moment a little longer.

Allahpundit's post here has been updated a couple of times since I last linked it.

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Execution of justice: New year, new goals with Saddam gone
Jules Crittenden

Like many of his own victims, he was handed a red card of death. Most had no such formality. It was an unceremonious bullet to the head, an acid bath or some other prolonged and hideous torture. It was being bound and thrown off the roof. It was being ripped apart by dogs.

Saddam was given dignity not afforded to hundreds of thousands of dead now greeting him on the other side. And when he had been dispatched, witnesses and executioners on this side danced around his body.

From Tripoli to Syria to Teheran to Beirut to Pyongyang, how many of Saddam Hussein’s fellow travelers involuntarily rubbed their own necks as the world was treated to this spectacle of justice for once achieved and not cynically subverted?

Heads up, Khaddafy, Assad and Ahmadinejad. Heads up, the entire rotten, stunted leadership of the People’s Republic of China. Heads up, Kim Jong Il.

The new year is upon us, and we have serious business to attend to. No time to dawdle over a bit of foul refuse by the side of the road. Saddam is behind us. Each of the above-mentioned despots remains to be dealt with in turn, and each poses challenges that will make their own arrival at justice drawn-out and torturous affairs.

Most immediate among our concerns are Iraq and Iran, and there is good news on both fronts of what is in fact one intertwined war. ...

Read Jules's related blog post here.

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Palestinians Missing Saddam and His Fat Checks for Terror
Gateway Pundit

"President Saddam Hussein has recently told the head of the Palestinian political office, Faroq al-Kaddoumi, his decision to raise the sum granted to each family of the martyrs of the Palestinian uprising to $25,000 instead of $10,000."

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz
Announced at a Baghdad meeting of Arab politicians and businessmen
March 11, 2002

Is it any real surprise then, that the Palestinians would be upset with the demise of the dictator? ...

Here is a smidgen more on Saddam's links to terror that is often overlooked by our media and those on the Left...

The following information is from the Saddam and Terror website: ...

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Savages mourn fascist tyrant
Allahpundit

Twenty pages of photos and counting at Yahoo News, most of them from Palestine, naturally. Just keep scrolling. ...

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An Unseemly Eulogy
Ed Morrissey

The New York Times gives its readers a blow-by-blow description of Saddam Hussein's final moments, which seems especially helpful now that the bootleg video of the execution has hit the viral network. However, the tone of this piece is more suited to the valediction of a national hero than a genocidal dictator, and it makes the Times look as though they are mourning the loss of Saddam Here are a few of the relevant points in the prose:

Saddam Hussein never bowed his head, until his neck snapped. ...

His executioners wore black ski masks, but Mr. Hussein could still see their deep brown skin and hear their dialects, distinct to the Shiite southern part of the country, where he had so brutally repressed two separate uprisings. ...

And so on. If you watch either video, this bears little resemblance to the images seen on television screens or computer monitors. Saddam hardly marched in with his head held high; instead, he looked somewhat nonplussed and nervous, understandably so, as he approached the platform. The entire piece reads like a radical Sunni insurgent history book, circa 2008, and the editors of the Times should have recognized it. Saddam may have faced his execution without tears or begging, but any review of the video shows the descriptions here to be propaganda. ...

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Paul Mirengoff: The thug is dead, long live the thug

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Awww… Did We Hurt Their Pwecious Feewings
by Emperor Misha I

It doesn’t matter how much we all knew it was going to happen, the endless MSM tongue-bathings of Sod’em Insane’s lifeless carcass are already beginning to have the same effect on His Majesty as a large dose of ipecac. To call the endless fawning eulogies talking about how he made the trains run on time and what a miserable childhood he had, not to mention the complaints about how one of the most brutal mass murderers in history didn’t receive a “fair trial” nauseating would be an understatement of cosmic proportions.

In fact, the MSM airheads are so utterly distressed and miserable that you’d think that it was the Hildebeest that had kicked the bucket.

So it’s a nice change to see that we’ve managed to piss off the perpetually seething Arab Street&trade as well. Of course, that too was to be expected. Just as the talking points of al-Zawahiri are virtually indistinguishable from the DNC’s, so are the grievances of howling mobs in the Turd World, almost without fail, identical to those of the MSM. At least as long as the aforementioned mobs of knuckledragging savages are howling at the U.S. (Link thanks to LC & IB Bill Quick).

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein’s execution on Saturday angered many Arabs, but even some who felt the former Iraqi leader deserved to die voiced a sense of justice denied.

Is that so? How utterly — irrelevant. Not that they don’t have a point, because they do: Justice was, indeed, denied, but that was mainly due to the fact that the executioners were too squeamish to execute the son of a dog in a way commensurate with his crimes. ...