The move to make a folk hero out of Saddam Hussein has begun in earnest. And it's almost certain to divide the left, as most rational, reasonable liberals want nothing to do with the movement.

But that doesn't change the fact that there are still those among the liberal camp who are making a hero out of a mass murderer. But they're not using the direct approach, but rather the indirect approach of demanding that those who would refuse Hussein all of the creature comforts of an innocent man are morally equivalent to Hussein.

The conclusions one must draw from their strange rationale are simple: either those who speak their mind should be executed, or what Hussein did is really not that bad. Since I doubt they would really like to see me sent to the gallows for free speech, I can only assume that their moral equivalency is meant to say that Saddam's actions were mere human nature, and that we should not punish him for acting in a manner that is only human. Basically, exonerating Saddam for his sins by demanding that they are simply normal human behaviour.

In another article, I pointed out Nazis who were sentenced and hanged at Nuremberg who had families. Nobody wept for them. Nobody wrote long, passionate articles, nor violated copyright by posting those articles in their entirety without the consent of the publisher asking us to feel for their families, to be outraged because their families weren't allowed to communicate with them as if they were free individuals. Nobody did it because what the Nazis did was indefensible. And what Hussein did was indefensible. And because their families' love for their family member did not trump the need for these people to serve the sentence for which they were convicted.

Saddam Hussein died alone. Saddam Hussein died without calls from friends and family members offering him words of comfort. Saddam Hussein died without his teddy bear to hug, or the loving embrace of his children. And that is how it should have been.

I am insulted that anyone would demand that my lack of compassion for Saddam Hussein is even close to morally equivalent to the murder of millions. I find especially telling the hypocrisy of this particular individual, who demanded that Saddam's execution was "justice" to my insistence it was not, and then had the gall to post the ignorant claptrap from a Hussein family apologist and demand that I was as bad as Hussein for not buying it.

The more I have discovered, the more I actually think Hussein's daughter SHOULD have been able to say goodbye to him, though. IN PERSON. While they were fitting the noose for HER neck, too.