Saddam, Nuclear Builder, Condemned

It is official now that Saddam will be hanged if his appeal fails. Amnesty International is doubtless incensed because they oppose the death penalty for everyone - even a mass murderer who used chemical weapons multiple times and routinely subjected his political enemies to gruesome torture. I have to recall the second Presidential debate in 2004, when President Bush said, "If Senator Kerry had been president, Saddam Hussein would still be in power." The Senator quickly countered, "Not necessarily still in power." Now, I am certain, Saddam would, "not necessarily," have been condemned under his authority.
As reported in the New York Al-Treason Times, the Bush administration has made public a number of documents showing that at the time of the 2003 invasion, Saddam may have been within a year or less of possessing a nuclear weapon. The Axis of Evil Speech will doubtless go down in history as a wake-up call to Americans, notifying us of which countries posed the greatest threats. Only five years after that speech, the most dangerous of those three regimes - the one that had actually used WMDs and had sponsored the most terrorists - has been replaced and the other two threaten the world with nuclear weapons that they are trying to develop. One down, two to go. At present, as North Korea returns to six-party talks while China twists the arm of the pot-bellied tin horn dictator, diplomacy seems to be making laboriously slow progress. For real deterrence against North Korea, I say, "Let Japan build Nukes!"