Swift justice for the Butcher of Baghdad

It's all over the news networks this morning. Saddam Hussein was executed last night for crimes against humanity, courtesy of a hangman's noose.

There was no doubt in any sane person's mind--or even at the New York Times--that this guy was a fiend in the mold of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Phol Pot.

His death sentence came after a conviction in just one case, in which he ordered the 1982 mass murder of about 150 people in the Iraqi village of Dujail. But, he could have been brought up on charges for his role in taking the lives of more than a million of his fellow citizens.

He was a pig to be sure.

But, the most amazing part of this whole story, at least in my opinion, was the swiftness with which the Iraqi criminal justice system carried-out the former dictator's death sentence: Just 56 days from sentencing to execution.

You don't see that type of efficiency in this neck of the woods.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.