So what exactly was accomplished there?

Saddam is dead. We hung him. Ok, the Iraqis hung him. Whatever. What good exactly did that do? Show that we can be as vengeful as he could? Somehow it reminds me of the logic my preschooler uses when he hits his big sister.

The silver lining is that I suppose this means that those guards who were busy making sure Saddam didn't make an embarrassing escape are now free to join in the attempt to keep the rest of the violence in Iraq down. May it be so.