normblog: Talking about the execution 

Saddam should not have been hanged. He should not have been, because judicial execution is not a morally defensible practice. Apart from other reasons, it brutalizes the community that inflicts it.

Yeah, we really want to try and avoid, like, brutalizing Iraq don't we? Whoops! Too late!
Norm condemns the hanging but was a staunch supporter of the invasion and occupation (until it became obvious, even to him, that he was backing a loser) which didn't just brutalize Iraqis but fucking well slaughtered them in their tens of thousands - with a bit of torture, rape and humiliation thrown in for good measure.

Still, look on the bright side:

The fact that Saddam is now dead, whatever the manner of his passing, is a rare bit of positive news. Given the nightmare that is Iraq today, I'll save my sympathy for those who suffered under his bloody reign and those who still suffer today.

Jane Hamsher says it better:

Any sympathy I might feel for Saddam's plight would find him standing at the end of a very long line of victims of this war, and it's not even an abhorrance of the death penalty that moves me today (although I most certainly feel that this is nothing a civilized nation has any place engaging in). That sickened feeling in my stomach seems to mark some kind of new low to which we have fallen, murder as PR to inch the arctic approval ratings of the pathological boy king and his disastrous war incrementally upward. Codpiece justice and death-as-photo-op reign supreme. Perhaps this is just the last, gruesome swan song of a morally bankrupt right wing as it exits center stage, the perverse final chorus it sings in its death throes.

It is nonetheless hideous to behold.