Frogman,
A rat has the good sense to build its warren with an egress and an exit. Saddam was found in a hole, same way in as out. To characterize this as a "spider hole" disparages spiders everywhere.
No, Mr. Hussein chose to make his last stand in a stink hole.
The much bruited Arab street doesn't know what to make of this Arab Big Man, the Grand Jihadi, the Great and Powerful Man of Arab Destiny, who refrained from expending his magazine, much less the the good use of his last bullet, and who surrendered in English. To Americans.
Denied their larger-than-life martyr, understandably the raucous Arab street is in the dumps: To think all those big fairy tales of revanchist Arab greatness -- which sadly sum out to hating Israel and detesting America -- to think the whole of Arab greatness could be stuffed in a stink hole.
But of course the stink hole proved ample accommodation for Saddam's greatness with plenty of room to pack in all the glory of Jack and Dom as well -- and still room to spare for Messrs. Schröder and Chrétien.
So little glory, so much stink hole.
Regards,
DGB