"MAKE HIM STAND"

"MAKE HIM STAND"

Saddam during his trial.

Saddam had refused to stand for the verdict and had to be lifted to his feet by two court bailiffs.

"Make him stand," the judge ordered as the former president stayed seated.

He then stood in silence and waited for his fate to be announced to the world.

Saddam was convicted of ordering the deaths of 148 Shia men and teenage boys in the town of Dujail in 1982. The killings followed a failed assassination attempt against him and were intended to act as a grim warning to others not to oppose him.

I grabbed these four lines from an article (click to view article) linked to Drudge. I felt these words and his actions frame what happened today very well. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, who not even on the day of his verdict, would stand and hold himself accountable. I think there is a chance the prayers of many Iraq's were answered today. He will be held accountable...