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Federalism and democracy are taking root.

by Rod D. Martin
November 6, 2006

So Saddam gets his just desserts and is sentenced to hang, right? And you expected the Euroweenies to object to the death penalty no matter how they felt about Saddam. But did you expect this?

1. The New York Times -- perhaps the greatest center of agitation for American defeat outside Osama's cave -- actually called this morning for the deferment of Saddam's sentence, saying "justice has not been served". To which we can only suggest they should try operating their newspaper under his tender mercies for a while.

2. Meantime, thousands of jubilant Iraqi's danced in the streets of Baghdad at news of Saddam's verdict, a point buried in most Western news reports and which you probably wouldn't know about at all were it not for Matt Drudge.

3. And if that weren't enough, Antoine Sfeir, a noted Arab expert and Middle East specialist from France, an Arab himself and author of books on Islamic terrorism and the Middle East, was interviewed yesterday on French tel…