If I wanted to be pedantic enough I would point out that Mr. Hussein is being virtually lynched by the US lynching mob - an activity that is an integral part of the US history and mentality. The difference between lynching and justice is that in the former the deeds of the person subjected to public humiliation or punishment are rationalizations rather than for that humiliation. That is to say, a person joins a lynching mob (or a pogrom, for that matter) because it gives him an opportunity to assail a token scapegoat - usually a member of an unpopular minority, such as Negro, a Jew, a homosexual, or simply an outsider.
Lynching is a process whereby the participants focus their fear and hatred on an effigy and destroy that effigy to relieve themselves of their own fears and frustrations - but then they rationalize their own despicable actions in terms of meting out "justice" by pointing out to the real or perceived evil deeds that the victim had committed. However, an important element of this process is that these purported deed by themselves would never trigger "meting out of justice" (as in case of court trial). In other words, the deeds of that sort are committed all the time and the participants of a lynching mob either know but do nothing about them, or do not care to pay any attention to those deeds. They go to action only when they receive a signal from some sort of authority figure (a government official, religious leader, the media, or even a self-styled agitator) that it sis the "open season" for hunting down certain types of bad guys.
The treatment Mr. Hussein received from the American people has all the signs of lynching. These concerned US citizens did not give a shit when Mr. Hussein was gassing people for the US and NATO (Kurds were a threat to Turkey, which was crucial member of NATO containment of x-USSR) nor did they give a shit about Pinochet, Noriega, Sukharto and assorted butchers on their payroll. These stalwarts of individualism and independence from the government started being concerned about a "threat" posed by Mr. Saddam only after the government cued them to do so. Just like in the 'good old days' when somebody cued them to string up a Negro.
This is, btw, what I hate the most about the US and its people. You can find the lynching mob mentality in virtually any country, but only the US-ers think that they attained a level of civilization never achieved by any other human society. It is that contradiction between the hideous US reality and lofty standards by which the US-ers want to be judged that makes the US look particularly despicable to the outsiders, and makes people dancing in the streets when something bad happens to it.
Wojtek