How come Mick just hung there? As I remember Saddam jerked around quite a bit.
If you look close, you'll see that the hangman positioned the knot near Mick's ear, and when he dropped, he would have broken his neck and died instantly. Saddam got hosed over, the Seppo's handed him over to his enemies, the Shiites, who tortured him by positioning the knot loosely under his chin, and he choked to death.
I always felt a bit sorry for Saddam, he was as much a victim of 911 as the poor folks in the WTC.