Saddam sentenced to hang. Now beware the post-sentencing propaganda.

Today, as expected, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. [Read story.]

I expect that it will be just a matter of hours until George W. Bush gets in front of a camera to take credit yet again for "liberating" the Iraqi people.

Bush will tell us how justice is now being served, and how we are heroes to the Iraqi people. But he will not mention the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women, and babies who have died under Bush's occupation.

We will likely see staged pictures of Iraqis celebrating Saddam's death sentence. But these scenes will ignore the raging civil war in progress there.

Now let me repeat (yet again) that Saddam was a very bad man, and he should indeed be held accountable for his crimes. But there are a lot of brutal dictators in the world. The fact that Saddam was one of them is no excuse to violate international law, thumb your nose at the United Nations Security Council, wage an unprovoked war of aggression against a nation that posed not threat to the U.S., and kill more than 2,800 of our troops.

But Bush will make it seem as though the ends justify the means.

With the mid-term elections only two days away, I hope the voters don't fall for this nonsense again.