As Edmund Hilary might say, we've knocked the bastard off.

We knocked the bastard off.

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

This may be my deficiency, but I don't think of him as great bastard at all.

Well, we knocked the bast*rd off!

That's why it's always gonna be a slum. Paterson is the bastard child of New Jersey.