Well, since the invasion, the death rate has averaged over 2000 per month. Before invasion, most numbers I've seen put it that a few thousand per decade. So, that's a 100x or more increase since we got there.
2006-09-12 20:57:45
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answered by coragryph 7
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The USA would like nothing better than to see peace in Iraq; then the troops could come home and we could stop paying a billion dollars a day to prosecute the war. But the Iraqis ultimately will have to do it themselves. As for the state of Iraq before the US invasion, if you consider it peaceful to slaughter a thousand Iraqis a day (which is roughly what was happening under the Saddam regime), well, ... (Figure it out yourself.)
2006-09-12 20:58:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Iraq was rarely peaceful. The was the Iran Iraq war where Sunni nations paid Saddam to attack Iran for being a Shiite nation, Saddam gassed some Kurds, the Kurds are attacking Turkey, mass graves are everywhere and of course there was the invasion of Kuwait.
2006-09-12 21:11:08
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answered by gregory_dittman 7
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it was more peaceful before the invasion b/c people were afraid for their lives, if you spoke up and out against Saddam and his government you were killed. by a conservative estimate, the regime was killing civilians at an average rate of at least 16,000 a year between 1979 and March 2003. which is 1333 a month. since the u.s. invasion an estimated 1227 civilians a month die, the death toll is about the same the only difference is this is a civil war and before it was genocide and execution.
basically it was more peaceful but less safe for the average Iraqi, if that makes any sense
2006-09-12 21:14:39
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answered by rare breed 4
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Saddam did plenty of killing in his day, he killed more Muslims than anyone else in history. He was a hit man in his youth and worked his way up from there. Although there has been a resent increase in violence in Iraq, it's not because of the U.S. Al Quida has been starting fighting between different groups in Iraq by infiltrating into neighborhood and brainwashing young Muslims to retaliate against bombing that Al Quida actually caused.
Coragryph, if you believe those numbers, then you believe Saddam won his last election by 99% of the vote. Are you aware that there have been more murders in the U.S. since the invasion, mostly in Democratic areas?
2006-09-12 21:06:43
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answered by MorgantonNC 4
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You seem to have partly answered your own question, by rightly calling Saddam a tyrant.
Which is better: Death in achieving a dream of peaceful co-existence or living all your life in fear? Peace is Iraq’s birthright – her people have suffered a lot under and after Saddam. Counting dead bodies is not a measure of the success/failure of the US occupation.
2006-09-12 21:37:21
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answered by cooldad 2
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Before trouble was brewing.
H.G. Wells warned on the rise of War of the World.
It had became a reality.
The Aliens kicked the butts of living human kind on planet earth was overlook.
The ghost busting was created by little children after us-911.
Living human kind were blurr and at loss on what went
wrong out there on planet earth.
The war in Iraq was over.
But the war of the world is not over yet.
So "Get them up and move them out" former members of Freedom Fighters from Team Allied Forces back from world war two to solve what went wrong out there on planet earth.
Pearl harbour made the breakthrough again.
Antiques with creaky legs must be back to station.
2006-09-12 21:13:44
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answered by Anonymous
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What Chris said. I agree war is hell. Our intentions are good but I think we bit off more then we can chew in Iraq. The terrorist leaders do not want a democracy in the middle east at all costs. And we are being held back by political correctness in our way of handling these terrorist thugs. I mean I hear no liberal politician here in the U.S. condem the terrorists for their treatment of people but yell at the top of their lungs when we go outside the gineva convention rules sometimes. We just can't win a war with the rules the way they are.
2006-09-12 21:33:25
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answered by crusinthru 6
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Well, if you consider the quashing of human rights, the genocide tens of thousands of Kurds, and the vast difference between the rich ruling minority and the poor toiling majority to be peaceful - then I guess the Pre-War Iraq.
2006-09-12 20:56:28
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answered by Christopher B 6
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Yeah, it rather is staggering all the pent up rage that errupts once you overthrow a fascist dictatorship. fairly a totalitarian one that were ruthlessly supressing ethnic factions of stated 'peacful sovereing us of a.' properly, no longer staggering - reprisals are to be predicted - yet, nevertheless, horifiying in its intensity and destructiveness. Do you think of the invasion of Iraq is the rationalization for all this violence and bloodshed? needless to say, the violence and bloodshed going on decrease than Sadam replaced into of an exceedingly distinctive character. lots extra orderly, much less disruptive to the social order. fullyyt extra desireable, in actuality, as long as you have been a Ba'athist. the present violence replaced into spark off with the help of the autumn of Sadam, and the invasion replaced into the proximate rationalization for the autumn, so the rationalization for the violence, besides. And, the occupation is virtually rather extending the era of violence, with the aid of fact it keeps anybody factor of the civil war from achieving victory. to no longer point out, attracting terrorists who could otherwise ought to commute farther than Iraq to locate American objectives - certainly, might additionally be compelled to settle with attacking Israeli or average muslim objectives. Do you think of if all troops have been to drag out that it can be a logical test interior the astonishing direction to work out if there is any replace or shrink interior the violence? test? No, i do no longer think of 26 million people symbolize a stable experimental difficulty. and that i do no longer think of one is termed for. needless to say, the persevering with civil war could finally be certain itself, with one factor - virtually rather the Shia, considering that they have a stable best buddy precise around the corner - effective and the others the two exterminated (unlikely, valuable genocide is a rarity in human history), or basically ruthlessly opressed lots with the aid of fact the Shia have been decrease than Sadam. that ought to point an eventual end to the form of violence this is going on now, yet an exceedingly grimm destiny for any non-Shiite-fans ultimate interior the - as quickly as lower back, peacful, soveriegn - us of a of Iraq.
2016-11-07 05:34:59
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answered by ? 4
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