I have to admit that I was always pretty neutral when the topic of Saddam was being addressed.
First of all, I was never at all into politics, and secondly, I'm not an Arab. However from what I've heard about him from most people, and the way that he was portrayed in the Western media, it didn't take me very long to figure out that he was seen as a villain by many people. I am not really sure how accurate this image is as there are still some people out there who regard him as their hero, but invariably the media was trying to show him in a very negative way.

His execution was a media event too, and that is where I think the line was crossed.
I'm not saying this because I think it was bad for the kids (there's so much of violence shown on Tv these days that I think one execution couldn't have had as devastating an effect as some people made it out to be).
However personally, putting someone's death on display to millions of people (consindering the fact that it was real) is just not very ethical in my opinion.
It is almost as if they were trying to prove to people, that they really killed him sending out a future warning to others.

This obviously had varying effects on people too - some were rejoicing, others saw it as a loss of their beloved leader... others still believed it to be a mere hoax.

To me, no matter how "evil" Saddam might have been, I still don't think it was right to execute him in front of all these cameras and play it on Tv. One could argue that he too, executed so many people so it was a righteous way of punishing and humiliating him but personally watching an execution is not something that I'd be terribly fond of, hence I didn't even watch it.