Why rever Saddam???

I find the various protest groups, that are being organised over Saddam's execution, as both amusing and disturbing. Muslim leaders must understand that just because a person is a Muslim, one cannot be discharged from the heinous crimes that one has committed. The death sentence was given by an Iraqi court, by an Iraqi under an Iraqi government. He was not tried in any US Federal Court. While it is true that Iraq is under US occupation, it must be noted that Iraq is not treated as a colony of the US. Moreover, the various car bombings in Iraq have killed more Iraqis than American troops. It is mere sectarian violence and is not a 'freedom struggle' as some people make out of it.

Saddam was certainly a monster. The way he handled his political enemies and the way he crushed the Shia majority demonstrate that cruelty was a part of his personality. How can any sane person rever such a monster?? He was neither like the 'grown up' Akbar nor like Shivaji. He was neither a Gandhi nor a Martin Luther Jr. He was a mere iron fisted, stone hearted dictator who cared for nothing but his own power. So let us not grieve over such a person. What is happening in Iraq is not even one-hundredth of what happened in post-partition days in Pakistan. We should not grieve over sectarian violences in some foreign country and disturb peace HERE by holding 'dharnas'(public protests). Nor should we rever a monster who never cared for human rights.