Did Sadamm kill more people per year than the amount that are dying per year in the conflict now?

Answer 1

Nope....not even close. Combine this with the fact that Iraq had electricity and running water before the USA "saved" them and you can see why terrorism is getting a boost instead of shrinking as a result.

Answer 2

I would say it will never be known, but I am leaning more towards no. The amount of people being killed a day now are up there with Stalinistic Russia. I am a former marine....so I am not Anti war (well in a sense) but I know that over a hundred a day (Iraqi) is a whole hell of a lot. God help those people, til we get the military restrictions off, we can't.

Answer 3

Can anyone justify 1 death being more important than another? No. There is no correct answer in all of this. I look at it this way. Maybe there was no weapons of mass destruction but we
are there now. The man was evil so this hasn't been for nothing.
Those people were suffering. The only people freaking out now are
the ones that liked it under his reign because they were loyalists
and used to be on top and have it good. They used to have power.
They were part of his army and top members of his cabinet etc.
Now they are just like everybody else and they don't like it. If we
pull out now what kind of message would that send? All the people that have died would die in vain. All some people care
about are themselves and they don't think about the bigger picture. The president has to think about the big picture at all times. The people that complain about us complain because they
don't like to be told no. They are like children and hate discipline.
The UN makes alot of promises they don't keep so they get
walked on and when the US talks (because we have power behind what we say) they start to get upset( it reminds me of liitle kids talking to their parents) because they don't
want to do what the UN tells them and they know that the US can
and will enforce things when it comes to our country's best interests. We do what is best for us. That is how
it should be. Why can't people see all the good that has come of this? That is probably why only bad news gets reviews and no
good news is ever shown anywhere on tv.It is a small minority of
that country that is still fighting. The rest of the country is under
control. People are working and going to school and voting!

Answer 4

I would say Saddam killed more even though he had more time .
in his 35 or so years he managed to kill approximately
300K Iranian in the 1980-1988 war
500K Of his own people
30K Kurds with chemical weapons
This doesn't even cover the Kuwait invasion and the Gulf war response
Just that averages to about 23000 people per year
US Figures are roughly 50K divided by 3 years 16000 and some change

Answer 5

NO! About 1000 a day for the last week.
Saddam is being charged with 141 deaths. He killed a lot, but no where near the kinds of numbers we are putting up the last few weeks. I guess this was Bush's plan along?

Answer 6

Saddam killed several hundred thousand Kurds just for fun. So the answer is yes. He and his sons (and probably others) went to schools and raped small children. I saw a marathon runner with scars on his legs and arms--he didn't qualify for the Olympic marathon so they made him crawl through hot tar for the last mile. There are more schools, hospitals, water treatment plants, and almost everything than there was a couple years ago. We are doing GOOD things over there.

Answer 7

well Saddam was bad but it is even worse there now after USA decided they want there oil.

Nelson_DeVon you should go there and see all the good things you are doing.

First USA supported Saddam selling him weapons that was at same time he killed other Ircan people

To Sally i pity you being so misinformed! You know UN was right all the time . You say USA did what fit them best. thats the problem USA always done what is in there best for them howe would you feel if i come over tomorrow taking your car because it is that what i want. There are other contrys then USA . If you belive the majority in Irac have it peaceful go over there and spend a night in there shoes

Answer 8

Heres the story. in 1988 Hussein killed about 180,000 kurds, in 1990 he killed and tortured 20,000 Kuwaitis, in 1991 he killed another quarter million kurds. From 1990 to the time he was taken out of power his standoffish attitude toward the UN basically strangled his own country. I'd say he had to go

I have some friends from Iraq and they say the removal of Saddam needed tohappen.

Answer 9

Here are some figures I came up with:

Kill tally: Approaching two million, including between 150,000 and 340,000 Iraqis and between 450,000 and 730,000 Iranians killed during the Iran-Iraq War. An estimated 1,000 Kuwaiti nationals killed following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. No conclusive figures for the number of Iraqis killed during the Gulf War, with estimates varying from as few as 1,500 to as many as 200,000. Over 100,000 Kurds killed or "disappeared".

No reliable figures for the number of Iraqi dissidents and Shi'ite Muslims killed during Hussein's reign, though estimates put the figure between 60,000 and 150,000. (Mass graves discovered following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 suggest that the total combined figure for Kurds, Shi'ites and dissidents killed could be as high as 300,000). Approximately 500,000 Iraqi children dead because of international trade sanctions introduced following the Gulf War.

Under the pretext of fighting prostitution, units of "Fedayeen Saddam," the paramilitary organization led by Uday Hussein, Saddam's eldest son, have beheaded in public more than 200 women throughout the country, dumping their severed heads at their families' doorsteps. Many families have been required to display the victim's head on their outside fences for several days. These barbaric acts were carried out in the total absence of any proper judicial procedures and many of the victims were not engaged in prostitution, but were targeted for political reasons.

In 1990, Saddam Hussein introduced Article 111 into the Iraqi Penal Code in a calculated effort to strengthen tribal support for his regime. This law exempts men who kill their female relatives in defense of their family's honor from prosecution and punishment. The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women reported that more than 4,000 women have been victims of so-called "honor killings" since Article 111 went into effect. (UN Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, January 2002)

119/day ~ 43000/year

Answer 10

Yes and they died slowly, and horribly.

Just FYI: More people die on US higways in a year than the number of people dying in Iraq.