Robert Fisk: The whole bloody thing was obscene

The lynching of Saddam Hussein – for that is what we are talking about – will turn out to be one of the determining moments in the whole shameful crusade upon which the West embarked in March of 2003. Only the president-governor George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara could have devised a militia administration in Iraq so murderous and so immoral that the most ruthless mass murderer in the Middle East could end his days on the gallows as a figure of nobility, scalding his hooded killers for their lack of manhood and – in his last seconds – reminding the thug who told him to “go to hell” that the hell was now Iraq.