Saddam hung in mid-prayer  Tyler Murphy  Like previous efforts
to bring a prior regime to justice, Saddam’s trial will be
remembered as much for what it showed about those sitting in
judgment as for what it proved about the accused. Saddam
ruthlessly murdered, tortured and persecuted the people under
his domestic sovereignty. His merciless actions were massive,
premeditated atrocities. Those familiar enough to witness the
blood-covered hand of Saddam at work may have found chilling
similarities in the current government’s execution of the
dictator. Saddam was villainous because his crimes set him apart
from us morally; to act in parallel with his vile methods makes
us accomplices to such immoral acts – and equally monstrous.  I
do believe people who suffer at the hands of injustice despise
it in all its forms and even if they do not, revenge is not a
moral motivation for condoning the execution. The word ‘us’
applies to the United States because we are the ones who invaded
Iraq under false information then to