As has been news for the past few weeks, Saddam Hussein is dead.
What's news now is that the Iraqi prime minister has just said that the US did tell them not to hang Saddam just yet (it was a Muslim holiday) but that he felt it was time to do that deed.
This story is quite an obvious attempt at propaganda. We know that the US is still in control of this country. What the PM's comments are being used for is to say that Iraq can do its own things, such as execute Hussein when it wanted to, despite anything the US said.
My question is, since they are on their own now, at least publicly, where is our payment? If Bush, the Democrats, or anyone else says that we just did it in the interst of preventing terrorism, liberating the Shias, or some other half-assed excuse, I say we should ask them for payment for our deed.
Oil would be nice. Free, for at least the next 10 years. The 25 cent/gallon gas would make up for the billions upon billions to trillions of dollars we're gonna have to pay in taxes for this excursion...
