Saddam’s gonna hang

Catching up on the weekend’s news after a wonderful weekend in Knoxville (and no, I didn’t look up Glenn Reynolds[*1] ).  The weekend would have been complete with a Tennessee football win over LSU, but the food in the skybox was pretty darn good.

Anyway, it seems that everyone’s favorite former dictator has almost come to the end of his rope[*2] , literally.  Lovers of freedom and liberty throughout the world hailed the imminent final meting of justice to a murderous tyrant:

Former Democratic Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia said thedeath sentence would make no difference and predicted moreviolence.

OK, perhaps not.