I will confess that I watched the video of the Saddam Hussein execution, and while I take no pleasure in seeing a human being die, I must admit that I was not particularly sorry that the butcher of Baghdad had assumed room temperature.

What I found much more interesting than the execution itself and even more than the al-Sadr taunts and the like was the manner in which our main stream media kept referring to Saddam as a mad man.

You see, mad means insane and insane means not responsible. I cringed at each description of him as mad and have every time I have heard that over the past few years. He was a lot of things — cruel, inhumane, vicious and evil but he was most assuredly not crazy.

Crazed perhaps but not crazy. Sadly, he coldly and methodically calculated, organized and ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thounsands of innocents. He knew full well what he was doing and that is why he was so dangerous.

The mad ones in all of this might well be the American journalists who now are putting a polish on the Hussein record. As for Saddam Hussein himself he was a bad man, a very bad man but not a mad one.

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