A Dictator Finally Faces Justice

A Dictator Finally Faces Justice

Mona Charen cherishes a special moment in history. Dictator is taken alive.

Savor it. Hitler deprived the Allies of the satisfaction of executing him. Stalin died in his bed. Pol Pot died of natural causes. But Saddam Hussein, that vicious, depraved worm of a man, was plucked from his rat hole. Ah the great warrior! The author of the Mother of All Battles. The man who claimed he would drive the "invaders" from Iraq. The man who forced thousands of Iraqis to sacrifice their lives so that he could continue his squalid and luxurious spree in his many palaces. This modern day Saladin (another of his conceits) didn't even have the courage to kill himself in the end, but submitted meekly, with an offer to "negotiate."