>and I wonder how many people Saddam would have killed this month were he still in the position to do so...

The Lancet study shows that the death rate in Iraq was lower pre-invasion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_mortality_before_and_after_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq#The_second_study_.282006.29

So more Iraqis and US soldiers would be alive today had George Bush not been elected.