"The Americans want Saddam to be hanged respectfully."

"The Americans also want to prevent the mutilation of his corpse, as has happened to other deposed Iraqi leaders." (Associated Press story.) U.S. democracy continues to spread its influence and good will in the Middle East....

Just to further prove that the U.S. opposes strongman governments in which leaders pursue their personal vendettas against their enemies, Bush keeps Saddam's personal pistol in his private study in the White House. (See press conference in which he talks about the gun.) See my earlier post on Saddam's death sentence.