This from the same population that drags American soldiers behind their cars and hangs them burning for everyone to pose with. The same part of the world where they play concert-beachball with the coffins of their leaders. The same culture who has public amputations, floggings, yadda yadda...

There may be a nation or two in the middle east who behave with a reasonable enough amount of tact to really be surprised about this, but then they'd be seeing this and worse from their neighbors constantly. My personal opinion is that he should have been tossed to a crowd of Shia or Kurds or Kuwaitis and pulled limb from limb so everyone could have a souvenir. His death was a thousand times more humane than had there been an Iraqi-led overthrow of his government, and it was a lot better than the deaths he gave people.

This is what happens when you do not install a puppet government and let them run their own country.  A shame we did not, right?  Riggghhhhtttt!

Are you kidding? Look at some vido of other hangings by Iraqis or other Arabs. By comparison the Saddam execution was positively sedate. You aren't going to get a more professional execution than Saddam's out of Arab culture my friend. Delighting in an enemies downfal in public and loud fashion isn't looked down on. The "outrage" you are talking about here didn't even come close to the dancing in the streets on the night he was actually killed. The celebrators were justified.

 

The Imam's or Iran and the Syrian opthamologist were going to have their supporters be "outraged" no matter what. It is foolish to think that anything would have changed this. They don't care that Saddam was hanged in a particular fashion, they are outraged that people can destroy their dictators.

No matter what happens that can be perceived we are involved with there is going to be 'OUTRAGE" even if they have to order their people to the streets at gunpoint to make them protest.