Nytimes praises Saddam painful grip on Iraq.

Media: Even for the NYTIMES this is astonishing.

Those developments, so unwelcome to the Americans who so easily conquered this nation, showed that Mr. Hussein was also a unifying force whose painful grip held together Iraq’s many ethnicities and sects. Now, three years after his fall, Iraq has descended further into chaos.

I could unify a country if I ruled with an iron fist and started killing anyone for any given reason.