George Bush thinks the current horror in Iraq will be a 'Comma'. Perhaps he will be the 'Comma' who martyred Saddam.

I'm sure 3,000 american families who have lost loved ones, and the 100,000 plus families who have had their loved ones returned from George's 'excellent adventure' shattered in body and mind, think all of this is 'Just a Comma'. Not to mention uncounted thousands in Iraq, who just want to go about their daily routine without fearing death.

I wonder that Shrub's legacy will be as he expects. Personally, I expect Benedict Arnold to finally catch a break.

Shaun D. Mullen at Kiko's House expresses this quite well:

Were Iraqis better off under Saddam Hussein?

That would have been a extraordinary question to ask in 2003. Saddam was, after all, a saber-rattling tyrant. He operated a feared secret police, a system of prisons and psychiatric hospitals full of people who were tortured and held without charge or trial, as well as rape camps.

But three and a half years later, my question has taken on a shocking legitimacy because of the extraordinary mess that the Bush administration has made of everything it has done in Iraq.

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George Bush and his neocon cabal have taken a broken country and broken it all over again. They have succeeded in doing the impossible by making many Iraqis nostalgic for the bad old days.

Will the U.S. guarantee that Saddam Hussein's legacy is martyrdom instead of infamy?

I regret to say that I believe that it will.

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