Saddam Hussein and his sons were thugs of the highest (well... lowest, since it is a negative superlative) order. Rapes, murders, kidnappings, torture, pedophilia, the use of gas weapons on the Kurds,... Proof exists that Saddam and his family were thugs. Newsweek magazine published several stories on this subject in the early part of the war. As anti-Bush as they sometimes can be, journalistic integrity required them to present the truth about the way the "boys" worked.
As to the terrorist thugs, they were the targets of Saddam's attention. In a sense, GWB was mistaken to take out Saddam when he did. GWB should have gone all-out to capture Osama. We know after many years of searching and retrospection that the weapons of mass destruction were not where the faulty intelligence said they were.
Now, on the other hand, given that even young girls weren't safe in Iraq given the pedophilia of the the Hussein boys, I have no problem with the fact that Saddam's immediate family is heading the way of all things. But I guess I would have preferred another way to get him out of office.