<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV id=idOWAReplyText5983 dir=ltr> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>To the editors of the Washington Post:</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dear Editor:</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>In your editorial affirming and celebrating Saddam Hussein's death sentence, you state with amazing hyperbole that perhaps the only person alive today with more blood on his hands is Kim Jong-Il.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is not politically correct to say so, but probably, if we take human rights organizations' reports seriously, the blood spilled by the latter is far far less than that spilled by the US aided Saddam during the 1980's. </FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr>But, in any event, I can think of at least <EM><STRONG>one</STRONG></EM> other dictator who is both alive and probably spilled even more blood than Saddam, the long-time US ally former President Suharto of Indonesia.  </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr>The confidence with which your editorial is written reminds me of the same ill-advised confidence that informed your editorials on "WMDs"  in the runup to the US invasion of Iraq now almost 4 long and bloody years ago.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV> <DIV id=idSignature73863 dir=ltr><PRE>Stephen Philion Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN http://stephenphilion.efoliomn2.com/index.asp</PRE></DIV></BODY></HTML>