The Larry Kane Report

The execution of Saddam Hussein will not nearly end our crises in Iraq, but in one very powerful way, it sends a message to the world, that in most cases, mass killings and genocide will not be accepted.

The hanging of Hussein is a clear message to the President of Iran, who has recommended wiping Israel off the map, who denies the holocaust, and who is a rogue dictator. The execution also sends a message to the brutal dictator of Korea, the terrorists in Darfur, Somalia, and the people everywhere who have commited crimes against humanity.

There are those in our country who will decry the execution of a former leader. There are those who oppose capital punishment in any form. But this was not a case where we needed DNA to prove a point. This was a case of clear-cut, government sponsored murder, the kind of murder, I should add, that takes place in Syria and Iran, and in the former Soviet Republics.

Saddam used poison gas, secret police, and forms of torture and terror that were born in the medieval times, to force his population to bow down, or die.

This execution would have been even more gratifying if we had a plan to rule the peace, after we won the first days of the war.

That inept leadership will haunt us for years. But at the very least, the butcher of Baghdad, is done.

For the current maniacal leaders like Ahmanidejad in iran, the dictator Chavez in Venezuela, and all who may try and take away the dignity of human beings, this is a strong and powerful hint of what could happen to them.