Editor’s Note: Evening Sun writers love to argue. The sides in this debate were chosen arbitrarily and do not necessarily reflect the author’s true viewpoint. This week, Tyler Murphy and Jeff Genung discuss the execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Like previous efforts to bring a prior regime to justice, Saddam’s trial will be remembered as much for what it showed about those sitting in judgment as for what it proved about the accused. Saddam ruthlessly murdered, tortured and persecuted the people under his domestic sovereignty. His merciless actions were massive, premeditated atrocities. Those familiar enough to witness the blood-covered hand of Saddam at work may have found chilling similarities in the current government’s execution of the dictator. Saddam was villainous because his crimes set him apart from us morally; to act in parallel with his vile methods makes us accomplices to such immoral acts – and equally monstrous. – TDM