Well, Saddam's now dead and I see that on the corners of Baghdad streets, kids are dusting off the second hand rocket launchers that they must've got for their christmas.
It's CNN I feel sorry for! There they go taking a team over there to cover the saddam lynching and low and behold some government official with a mobile becomes a youtube star.
It really is the sign of the times when as soon as we saw the official footage on TV, my girlfriend and I were trawling through Youtube to see if anyone caught the big drop on film. Sure enough, six hours later the news channels had changed to the mobile footage and Saddam will forever be linked with footage that makes Abraham Zapruder's film look like Speilberg.
Now there seems to be some debate over how ethical a private lynching was? Now this is a funny one for me. We bomb the crap out of Baghdad on a daily basis and a very conservative current estimate of civilians killed in the Iraq war sits at around 50,000 yet this one hanging is starting to make a few people feel a bit guilty? Imagine Bush and Blair had to sit and watch mobile clips of all of these people being shot in the head, crushed in their beds, bombed out of existence. Of course they can't think about anything like this, how could they sleep at night?
I guess the funny thing is that much like a serial killer, the guilt probably lessens as the number grows higher. Thinking about the death of one man and the consequences this has for his family and friends is far easier to comprehend than that of 50,000 doctors, teachers, fathers, mothers, children, shop keepers, computer programmers, students, babies, friends. The funny thing is that i'm sure that Tony and George sleep like babies each night. Odd that...
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