Hitchens: Don't Kill Hussein

If the new Iraqi government -- and the U.S. by association -- wants to begin a new Iraq, the best way of demonstrating this fact would be to give Saddam Hussein life imprisonment and prosecute him for all his crimes so an exhaustive history of his atrocities exists for all time. As Camus said: Neither victims nor executioners.

Check out Hitchen's Slate.com piece for his argument.