Updated: Robert Fisk’s - A dictator created then destroyed by America is brilliant.

Updated: According to a variety of news sources, the execution of former US ally, Suddam Hussein, has occurred.

To say that the hanging of Saddam Hussein will be a positive for the Bush administration is only a given in so much that it will reaffirm the amnesia prevalent in American society. That another former US proxy gone awry and labeled an enemy of freedom will have succumbed to the irreproachable might of American show justice. Whether it be the engineered removal of a former CIA asset like Manuel Noriega or the use of Hussein’s genocidal crimes to, in part, justify the 2003 invasion (despite the fact that the Reagan administration continued to support him even after he committed the worst of his crimes), the death of Saddam Hussein will most likely be publically forgotten just as quickly and quietly as the hunt for Osama Bin Landen has been.

With regards to Hussein’s execution, here are the statements released by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.