Eid al-azha marks the date of hanging of Saddam :
I wasn't a fan of Saddam in his lifetime. I saw him as torturous, murderous, anti-Islamic. But truth be told a lot of good works had been done in the history of Islam by murderous dictators too. Specially in hard times, people get a merciless leader, or better say "deserves" one.
And such I am not listing Saddam's good deeds, but one thing now astonishes me is finding out how a large number of Iraqis praise him online for all his good works, and miss him on his death.
Maybe he personally changed a lot in later years, while I know him only from his early years. Or maybe, Iraq always deserves a ruthless leader for it to be stable, I don't know.
On his hanging stage Saddam declared, "Iraq can't survive without me." That was true for more than a decade after his death, when the whole country got torn into pieces by fractional in-fights.
But right now they seem to have more and less, found their balance.
Remembering Saddam on this day.