Step by step, a languid body is guided to a wooden platform.
You see a black covering being tied around the face as the noose is placed around the neck.
You begin to hear the yelling of the final words of a man who is about to be put to death for his many years of atrocities against mankind.
The hatch opens, the body falls and hangs flaccidly.

            The late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed on Dec. 30, 2006 at approximately 6:00 a.m.
            One person that must have felt a great sense of completion was our very own President George W. Bush.
            His life of murder, control, and power came to an end as his lifeless body hanged at “Camp Justice.” Ironically, he was killed at the very place his own prisoners were taken to be tortured and executed.
            Justice was served, as karma took its toll.
            Upon hearing the name Saddam Hussein many thoughts and visions come to mind.
            The image of the 50,000 Kurds that were gassed to death in 1988 comes up. Innocent people were poisoned as if they were rats in a laboratory.
            The concept of all the body doubles Hussein had in order to ensure him safety lingers in the head.
            There is the sight of Hussein’s face at the turn of every corner as the entire city of Iraq was decorated with thousands of portraits, statues, and murals in his honor.
            Yet above all, there is the picture of the thousands of Iraqis who were given no choice but to follow Hussein at gunpoint. All the people forced to believe in his ways and support his obsessed dream of having a united Arab world led by Iraq.
            There is no doubt that some souls rested well the night of Hussein’s hanging as a feeling of gratification and revenge settled in. He paid the price for all of his unanswered and unjustified deeds.         
            In Hussein’s letter before his execution, he wrote to those who saw him as a faithful, honest, and just man who was careful with the wealth of the people and the state, and had a heart that was big enough to embrace all without discrimination. He saw himself as a model leader and brother for the nation of Iraq, and advised the people to find a future ruler with the same qualifications.
            Whether or not the killing of Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do, it was without a doubt the most convenient.