Bush apparently is disappointed that Saddam Hussein's execution "looked like it was kind of a revenge killing." How it was any less vengeful than the 152 executions he signed off on while governor of Texas is a mystery to me.
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To be fair, those executions were made through i/v funny juice. I bet they even disinfected the site of injection!