Originally posted by Elvion

In the end I just felt like, if I cheered for his execution - I am no better than him.
I understand what you are saying, but I think putting it this way is a little glib.

Simply "cheering" for his death does not even begin to approach the wholesale murder, torture, and rape of millions.

Cheering for someone's death is possibly low class, and maybe even immoral, but it is wrong to draw an equivalency between that lapse and the acts of Saddam Hussein.