Maybe I am naieve or just don't fully understand but it seems to me that most of the Iraqi people were scared of Saddam, And with good reason. Most are probably glad that he is dead and it is the radical loyalists that are going to use the execution to spread hatred of the western world even though it was an Iraqi court with an Iraqi judge and an Iraqi jury that tried,convicted and sentenced him.
Personally I don't think we (the U.S.) should have even been in Iraq in the first place but thats a whole different topic.