"U.S. forces had no role in Saddam Hussein's hanging, but would have handled it differently, a U.S. general said on Wednesday as Iraqi authorities questioned a guard over a video of officials taunting Saddam on the gallows." Oh, yeah. With the same skill, competence, sensitivity, imagination, that the war and occupation have been handled. Oh, yeah. But I could not stop thinking today about that line on the front page of the New York Times today about the US government not interfering in Maliki's deicion to execute Saddam out of "respect for the sovereignty" of Iraq. US fighters jets three years after the fall of Baghdad continue to bomb towns, cities, and villages in Iraq but the US continues to "respect the sovereignty" of Iraq. I find that plausible, don't you?