A video has surfaced on the internet showing the hanging of Saddam Hussein. The video was taken from a cell phone and reports indicate that the owner of the cell phone was a guard on the security detail that has now been taken into custody himself for taking and releasing the video.
The video is graphic and shows the entire event. The video is available on YouTube and many other services. We are not publishing an embedded version of the video on Gridlock on Rye due to its graphic nature. However, we are making the link available of Saddam's Execution.
Iraq executes many people in the name of the government and the society is still in a massive state of flux. There is some controversy over the loud voices in the background. The even was not a somber situation, and Saddam appears to be more reserved than a few of the other attendees.
We are covering this in part because many aspects of the Iraq war appear to have been cleansed for mass consumption by 24 hour news services. Wars and insurgencies and revolutions and civil wars are extremely brutal and nasty affairs. I personally do not think that we Americans are doing ourselves any favors by not understanding the results of our impact in Iraq. This video is a direct result of our impact there. I am not criticizing that impact nor endorsing it, but am accepting that it does exist.
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