I certainly hope so, as we all hope so. The sad fact is that Saddam is just about irreplaceable. But somehow the bad guys no longer measure up. Villainy is not a simple matter. Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot, the three super-villains of the 20th century, set the bar impossibly high.
Geographic proximity counts as well.
Even in the global village, the bad guy must live on the same street to catch our attention. Saddam, however, meets all the criteria of villainy. He might have operated thousands of miles away, but that was close enough for British ground troops to be sent into combat against him and near enough for us to be within range of one of those rockets he's supposed to be developing. Slobodan Milosevic met the conditions too, but he's left the villainy business. So farewell to the Butcher of Belgrade and, if the rumormongers are right, to the Butcher of Baghdad as well, shortly.