The Independent
Robert Fisk
The West may be celebrating his death, but that's just an accident of timing
We loved him. We hated him. Then we loved him again. Blair slobbered over him.    Then we hated him again. Then La Clinton slobbered over her BlackBerry and    we really hated him even more again. Let us all pray that he wasn't    murdered. "Died of wounds suffered during capture." What did that    mean? 
He was a crazy combination of Don Corleone and Donald Duck – Tom Friedman's    only moment of truth about Saddam Hussein – and we who had to watch his    ridiculous march-pasts and his speeches bit our lips and wrote about Libyan    tanks and marines and missiles that were supposed to take this nonsense    seriously. His frogmen flipped and flapped through Green Square in the heat    and we had to take this rubbish at face value and pretend that it was a real    threat to Israel; just as Blair tried to persuade us (not unsuccessfully)    that Gaddafi's pathetic attempts to  [...] 
 
 
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