Is world better without Saddam?

[abaris]

I seriously doubt conclusions that begin with the notion that keeping him in power is/was the only way any scenario better than the one we're currently in could have been arrived upon.

Not the only option. In that you're absolutely right. There are countless fictitious options without Saddam. But we have to deal with realities and not fiction. Reality however only offers reality. And that's the comparison between relative stability and the instable and bloody situation we have now. In all honesty, does anyone even stop eating their breakfast over news that another dozen of people have been blown up in Iraq? Does it even make headlines what atrocities ISIL commits in its occupied territories?

The reality is, as long as it's about brown people, hardly anyone gives a shit. But it's the same brown people, this supposedly was about. Not about lucrative contracts for Haliburton and Cheiney. So, no. I find nothing in what you have said so far, that makes me reconsider my standpoint. This was, at best, a futile endeavor. At worst, it worsened the situation. And I'm rather leaning towards the worst outcome, since we are worse of without the devil we knew, as well as the Iraqis.