It's comforting to know that the Bush administration is thinking along the same lines as my common-sense argument for reassuring the Iraqis and silencing any fringe-bound critics with incontrovertible, post-mortem evidence of Udai and Qusai Hussein.

Will the two be more powerful as wraiths? No: only on the wings of philosophical fervor can a leader become a martyr and as uncovered day by day, the Husseins' Ba'athist regime was a Fertile Crescent mafia that had reverted to the base instincts of bestial will. Dead dons, to be certain, do not persist in memory. Thugs and lackies won't lose time worshiping a would-be saint when they could be rowing to be the replacement for his erstwhile eminence.

The two beasts are slain. Now, CPA must mass-disseminate the photographs for Iraq's good citizens and outlaws alike to study and consider.