So they killed Saddam, big deal. Hundreds of people a week are getting killed in Iraq. Death is not solving anything over there, perhaps we should be more worried about keeping people alive. Saddam was a bad man, and got what all bad men get, however killing him has solved and will solve nothing.

In other news, 60 other innocent people were killed in car bomb attacks in Baghdad yesterday…

from here

“Saddam’s execution puts an end to all the pathetic gambles on a return to dictatorship,” said Maliki, seen on television signing the order with red ink for a hanging he did not attend.

But there was little sign of an end to the violence.

Police in Kufa, near the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf, said 36 people were killed and 58 wounded by the car bomb at a market packed with shoppers ahead of the week-long Eid al-Adha holiday. They said a mob killed a man they accused of planting the bomb.

A triple car bombing killed 25 in a Shi’ite district of the capital — the sort of attacks that have pitched Iraq toward sectarian war since U.S. troops broke Saddam’s iron rule.

President Bush, who called Saddam a threat though alleged nuclear and other weapons were never found, said:

“Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq’s course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself.”

The deaths of five troops pushed the American death toll to just a few short of the emotive 3,000 mark. Bush already faces mounting public dismay at the war as Iraq slides toward all-out civil war between Saddam’s fellow Sunnis and majority Shi’ites.

In other words, expect more of the same for the foreseeable future. Everyone knows now what a lot of us knew then, this war should have never started, and it will not end in a nice way for anyone involved. We have set a chain of events in motion that will haunt the middle east and the American people with violence for decades to come.