A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442.html
President Bush and his administration claimed that Saddam Hussein was an immediate threat to the United States. The country had weapons of mass destruction and could use them against America or give them to terrorist groups. The White House talked about mushroom clouds. As we know now, neither nuclear weapons nor poison gas nor germ weapons existed or were being built. There was no immediate threat. Rather than admit they made a mistake, the Administration has argued that Saddam was a brutal dictator and that the Iraqi people are better off without him.
Given an estimated 665,000 Iraqi deaths since the invasion, ARE THE IRAQI PEOPLE BETTER OFF?
2006-10-15
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