In the UK the news coverage on the execution has included somewhere at least in each report that saddam was supplied weapons by the West and reports have also been clear to point out he did not have wmds, he did not have anything to do with 9/11, he did not have connection with al quaedi (?). The reports have not underplayed the attrocities he was connected to but neither have they sugar coated the truth.

I agree with the poster who remarked on the dignity he showed, and the reference to the 'mini cab' drivers would normally have raised a chuckle. Very astute.

One side effect of todays debacle will be to further lower the worlds opinion of the US. If that is possible.