The Execution of Saddam Hussein

The Execution of Saddam Hussein got Stephen's 2007 off to a lousy start, as The Colbert Report was on hiatus for the holidays.

The hanging of this despot was bungled from the get-go by not delaying the event until after Stephen returned. It was a public relations failure and as senior Army officials have said "If you're asking me if we would have done things differently, yes we would have."

This hangcastrophe is the latest in a string of disappointing dictatorial deaths for Stephen, who missed the weeken deaths of Slobodan Milosevic and Augusto Pinochet earlier in 2006.

We are running out of FUSSDIRAGs for Steohen to cover fully when they come up for execution.