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Saddam is dead. He isn't coming back, and he has nothing to do with what's going on in Iraq at the moment.
I don't see how we can continue to miss the point here: we in the West (and perhaps elsewhere) don't seem to mind much or notice that scores of people continue to die each month in Iraq. And the question isn't whether Saddam's regime was worse. It's whether the Coalition will or can actually do anything to stem this tide.
Bringing up Saddam at all is a red herring. He doesn't matter. It seems that Iraqis in general don't matter. I tend to hear more about Afghanistan here, being in Canada. What do you get on your radars in the U.S. regarding Iraq these days?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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