Saddam had to die. It's good he's gone. I've said for months that when he was captured I would have immediately turned him over to the Kurds. Not only was he a vicious tyrant but as long as he was alive he was the potential focus of a Baathist coup. NB, Baathist, not Sunni. There is a big difference. The important thing is to recognize the stupidity and unhelpfulness of attitudes like that of Teribus, who for months lumped all Sunnis together with Saddam, even going so far at one point as to claim that all Iraqi Sunnis were the equivalent of hard-core Nazis in 1945.

By far more important than Saddam's death is what I've been saying for over a year--Iraqi Sunnis need to know 1) they can trust Iraqi police and 2) they will be guaranteed more oil income than would accrue to them from "Sunni" areas of Iraq.