All Fall Down.

Even before the touting by grateful Iraqi-Americans on CNN, I sat on my couch as the News Hour with Jim Leher was interrupted with the news of Saddam Hussein's execution. That it took less than one week after his appeal was dismissed suggests to me one of two things. Either the majority Iraqi Shia party sought swift justice on behalf of themselves or the families of those Kurdish victims in 1983 (and wished to prevent a possible litany of Sunni demands for alternate recourse in Saddam's punishment) or this hastened act was meant to stave the growing Ba'athist sympathies by exerting that the current Iraqi Government is THE ONLY Iraqi Government now and always. So there, Bush, Rice & Cheney.

Western media will spin this all day Saturday. Whether it's sports commentators during NBA or College Bowl games (waxing patriotic about the hangman's justice,) or liberal, humanitarian groups' outcrying over the inhumanity of allowing hanging as a form of State-sponsored execution, I fear that his death will spark something more profound before the year's end.

Stay tuned, sportscenter is next.