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...fitting that Saddam Hussein died, as many of his political opponents did, dangling from the end of a rope. He had used the gallows at Abu Ghraib to silence opposition and dissent. In doing so, he had controlled Iraq for over two decades, but he created a generation of enemies. And some of those enemies, who never forgot their fathers and brothers who disappeared in the night, were there to watch...
...many who watched it, the execution of Saddam Hussein was a personal vindication. He killed their brothers, uncles, tore apart their families and ran their beloved country into the ground. Even if his finger didn't pull the trigger, they blamed him for everything: every nail-biting visit by an intelligence officer, every midnight execution, every tongue cut out by a sadistic guard, every body in the mass graves at Hillah and Hawija and Musayeb. He projected absolute authority while he was in power and now faced absolute responsibility for every death under his rule. The moment the steel trap...
...Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein •Saddam Is Sentenced to Death, and Iraq Shrugs...
...Webguide • The Final Days of Saddam Hussein...
...hard to overstate how much Saddam Hussein dominated Iraq, physically and psychologically. His statues and portraits were everywhere, but his subjects really needed no reminders of the dictator's presence: as Abu Mohammed indicated to me, Iraqis carried Saddam in their head, like a psychosomatic condition...