Another Botched Hanging, Victory Around The Corner For Sure

I know there's freshly-painted schools somewhere in Iraq, but all the news looks bad to me-

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's attempt to close a chapter in Saddam Hussein's repressive quarter-century in power, by hanging two of his henchmen Monday, further enraged Sunnis when the former leader's half brother was decapitated on the gallows.

Barzan Ibrahim's stout body plunged through the trap door and its head was snapped off by the jerk of the thick beige rope at the end of his fall toward the execution chamber floor six metres below...

The first report I read on this noted that the man was 'accidently beheaded'. Don't you just hate when that happens? You know a war is a complete and total fuckup when you can't even execute people without tons of stuff going wrong. That these people running this debacle can even tie their shoes in the morning is very amazing to me.

Of course, if this one doesn't end up on YouTube, that's progress.