Saddam.

They say the execution of Saddam Hussein will take place before 10 p.m. EST.

James Brown wake at the Apollo wraps up. The casket of Gerald Ford arrives in Washington this weekend.

Gerald Ford whose death released his true stance on this war.

They will make movies of this some day. The death of this man, these men. How we sent the leader of a country to the gallows before a victor emerged. If ever there is a victor in these things. How we lauded the great democratization of a nation and then afforded its citizens none of the process that notion implies.

Time for a New Year.