Look at this:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/02/news/web.0102britain.phpand this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/world/middleeast/02cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1167800400&en=c7d6181f15a9dae3&ei=5094&partner=homepage"Among those most incensed by what happened to Mr. Hussein in his final moments are American officials in Baghdad and Washington, who had hoped that the execution would bring Iraqis to a point of closure over Mr. Hussein’s role in Iraq’s turbulent history"but here's what really matters:
American officials say privately that the Maliki government, by allowing the Hussein execution to be conducted as it did, signaled more powerfully than ever before that it was unwilling or incapable of surmounting the deep sectarian divisions here.Which means there's no prospect of pulling out any time soon.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1