Iraq was better under Saddam. Ahead by light years. A very cosmopolitan lifestyle that should have been the core of democracy that the US wanted to bring in but failed miserably at. Thanks to such a reckless and expensive move and some other economic developments within, the US finds itself with a weakening currency, grossly lowered financial resources, unemployment threatening to get out of control and a suicidal move that is destabilising the world economy.
I think he fits the bill for being labelled the 'Third anti- Christ' as Nostradamus predicted.