From Kathleen Parker and found at NashvilleCityPaper.com:

"In a Reuters story from Baghdad on Monday, an Iraqi official described Saddam as a broken man who sought the mercy of Americans.

“When we were asking him difficult questions and throwing accusations, reminding him of his crimes, he was looking at Ambassador (Paul) Bremer and General (Ricardo) Sanchez, as if he was asking the Americans to protect him,” Muwaffaq al-Rubaiye, a member of Iraq’s Governing Council, was quoted as saying.

And why would that be? Because we’re murdering, immoral, invading, occupying evildoers? Or because Americans are known to be decent, generous, fair-minded and trustworthy?

How ironic that Saddam sees what even some Americans can’t or won’t see: that we are the good guys and that in a contest of moral rectitude, we have few if any peers [emphasis mine]."