CNN confirms it.'Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein executed'.

Saddam Hussein has been executed.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/29/hussein/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, a witness said.

"Saddam's body is in front me," said an official in the prime minister's office when CNN telephoned. "It's over."

In the background, Shiite chanting could be heard. When asked about the chanting, the official said "These are employees of the prime minister's office and government chanting in celebration."

The witness reported that celebrations broke out after Hussein was dead, and that there was "dancing around the body."

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not attend the execution, according to an adviser to the prime minister who was interviewed on state television.

The execution was videotaped and photographed, state television reported, and those images will be distributed to the media.

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Bush Killed Saddam

We all Democrats know that. We didn't want the Iraq War! There is no such thing as an Iraqi government. If there was a government why are we sitting just like Bush like a lame duck.

While

I have no admiration whatsoever for Saddam I think we have to remember that the neo-cons actually built him up in the Iran-Iraq War. I really fail to see just what in the hell his death is going to do to improve the situation over there. It is just another B.S. argument fools like Hannity and Rush to point to as "success" in Iraq. These people's mindset is truly sickening.

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