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Are the citizens of Iraq better off with Saddam out of power? Conventional Wisdom offers a “theoretically, yes” to that question. But for the innocent citizens of Iraq, “maybe, maybe not.” I keep hearing, from the few still trying to justify this “miscalculation” about all of “Saddam’s mass graves”. So I did some quick cursory math.<\/p>\n
Since Saddam took over Iraq in 1979 through his ouster in 2003, he supposedly killed some 300,000 citizens (according to repeated Administration assertions). That’s roughly 13,000 deaths per year<\/b>.<\/p>\n
In the short time since the U.S. invaded Iraq through today, we’ve killed about 20,000 of it’s citizens (not<\/i> including the 28,000 Iraqi military that the Pentagon reported as killed). That rate then is also roughly 13,000 deaths per year<\/b>. A few more than Saddam’s numbers actually. And if you add the military deaths to it, of course, then Bush seems to out-Saddam Saddam hands down when it comes to filling mass graves with Iraqi citizens.<\/p>\n
In theory, of course, those number should<\/i> go down as time moves on. Even though they are rapidly moving up as we speak. If the CIA’s prediction is true, about civil war breaking out in Iraq — a notion that seems to be well on it’s way to reality according to all sources who happen to be in touch with said reality — that number may not go down any time soon and will be probably continue to increase.<\/p>\n