Saddam Hussein's dignity has been attacked. Forgive some people if they don't get too upset. People, like relatives of the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis who were indiscriminately murdered and thrown into mass graves.

For all the debate over the war, for the talk of WMD, and whether WMD was the reason the U.S. went to war, people have seemed to stopped talking about one fact: Saddam Hussein is the worst living mass murderer, and the worst mass murderer on the planet since Pol Pot. He can't murder anybody now, and he will probably be executed at some point in the future. He has stopped filling mass graves.

Now there are also reports about U.S. troops torturing al Qaeda prisoners of war. Though the military says evidence suggests the torture of al Qaeda members or Taliban was isolated, the New York Times reports:

Yet the Bagram file includes ample testimony that harsh treatment by some interrogators was routine and that guards could strike shackled detainees with virtual impunity. Prisoners considered important or troublesome were also handcuffed and chained to the ceilings and doors of their cells, sometimes for long periods, an action Army prosecutors recently classified as criminal assault.

Criminal assault is bad. Just like it was bad when al Qaeda did this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And planned to do the unimaginable.

And actually did the unimaginable. With clear intent.

For those of you keeping track...