Amazingly swift justice for the "butcher", Iraqi style.

As some mourn the death of Saddam by the (Warning: graphic) hangman's noose, his tribesman hold his funeral and bury him, and as others rejoice in his demise, we are confronted with the question whether swift justice (a few days after his appeal was denied) is the way to go here in the U. S. or whether the swiftness of Saddam's punishment was because his guilt was so overwhelming that there was no need to postpone the inevitable outcome?

Another important question left unanswered is why the tribunal that tried Saddam and the United States (and the United Nations) did not take Saddam into international custody and tried in the World Court in Hague, just like Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor and others before him? There, he would have been convicted and left to rot in prison, defeated and largely forgotten, rather than his death (and martyrdom?) adding fuel to the fire of secterian violence that now prevents Iraq from looking to a future of a united country.