Death to our buddy

In the better-late-than-never department, I have this sudden urge to weigh in on the execution of the U.S.'s one-time buddy, Saddam Hussein. For those of you living in a cave (Osama, this means you), the worst dictator since George W. was hanged by the neck until dead after a fair trial by the Baghdad chapter of Iraqis Who Now Love the West.
If you haven't been followed the aftermath of this court-ordered killing, you might not have heard that a guard at the execution site filmed the hanging and some of the taunts and insults hurled at Saddam just before his necktie party.
This caused the Shiite to hit the fan. Now it seems like all sorts of people have their burkas in a knot about this because the photos got spread around on the Internet.
I don't get it. It was a hanging, folks, not a honeymoon.
The fact that someone recorded this is considered some sort of barbaric act?
But the hanging itself isn't?
I think they should have just beheaded the guy on live TV. The Fox Network would have let them use their studios and Budweiser would have sponsored it.
Besides, it would have been a lot more palatable than that planned O.J. show.