SusanG on Hussein's fubar execution:

"In short, everything this incompetent administration touches turns to shit, even executing tyrants the world despises. Inadequate planning, misreading the sectarian divisions in Iraq and their possible consequences, hoping (or probably just praying) that the best-case scenario would play out instead of anticipating possible backfires, getting pissy when intelligent people are repulsed by the results .... Yep, Saddam’s death played out like a repeat in miniature of all that went wrong with the invasion."