Your analysis of bin Laden is good.
However I fail to see why you think Saddam is such a genius.
Name one clever thing Saddam ever did.
(Oh, wait. He invaded Iran. He invaded Kuwait.
You're right, brilliant strategist!)
Well, he's still running Iraq, while GHWB was given the boot by the voters within a few months of winning the Gulf War. He won the Iran-Iraq war. He's still alive after decades in power, while countless would-be opponents have been gassed, shot by firing squad, hung in public squares until their necks are a foot long, or tortured to death. He still manages to maintain a personal fortune of $7 billion and multiple palaces, while his people starve. He's got Colin Powell running around the Arab world, kowtowing to tin-pot dictators to try and stave off World War III. He pulled off an end run around our entire national security apparatus, destroying the WTC and killing 3,000 people using a handful of agents armed with nothing more than box cutters. He easily out-maneuvered Clinton in order to kick out the UNSCOM weapons inspectors, and he has neutralized are strategic nuclear deterrent in one surprise move.
Inasmuch as Hitler ended up taking his own life in a bunker after starting a war which killed 50 million people, I suppose we could say Hitler was not, on balance, clever, despite the fact that he managed to turn himself from a street person to absolute ruler of the most powerful nation in Europe in less than twenty years, in spite of the fact that he conquered the whole continent in less than a year. Perhaps, in the long run, we'll be able to pass the same final judgment on Saddam Hussein. Somehow, I don't find that thought much of a comfort, however.