demon, I'm still trying to work my head around your double...

demon, I'm still trying to work my head around your double negative, ie "What will be achieved having Hussein no longer in power?"
However, have you thought that if SH has gone he has left a whole complex of subsversives behind?
Or if he's been the victim of a coup d'etat those now in power are more brutal than him?
Let's leave the hypotheticals for Geoffrey Robinson and see what's happening on the ground. Not that we'll ever know, really. Not till the fat lady sings.