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To: Ilaine who wrote (211316)	12/31/2006 12:44:42 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There's a lot more at stake than just Saddam's death. If they had strung him up by the balls, hacked out his eyes and tortured him to death, would the only thing "important" be that he was dead? No. I don't think so. You may think that's the only thing important, but the man is (and I do mean is, not was) a potent symbol dead and alive, and the way of his death is important, imo. If you disagree with that than we disagree, and nothing you say is going to convince me that the circumstances of his death are not important.

To: Ilaine who wrote (211316)	1/7/2007 11:32:52 AM
From: E	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

What is important is that he is dead. .... Hussein appears to have been virtually cleansed of his past... "Suddenly we forgot that he was a dictator and that he killed thousands of people,” said ... a Lebanese Christian. “All our hatred for him suddenly turned into sympathy, sympathy with someone who was treated unjustly by an occupation force and its collaborators.” Just a month ago Mr. Hussein was widely dismissed as a criminal who deserved the death penalty... ...But shortly after his execution last Saturday, a video emerged ... From then on, many across the region began looking at him as a martyr. nytimes.com