Are You Tired of Being the World's Policeman?

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38. I'm not saying there is a valid justification for Vietnam or Iraq, but your assumption that none of

those people would have died without our being there is equally naive. A million people didn't die in Iraq because of us. Not even close. A million people died during the Saddam Hussein years. More than that likely. The pictures we took at Abu Ghraib are nothing compared to the prison cleansings that happened under Hussein. Remember when they had overcrowding and then they would hang people twenty at a time? Sometimes they would take prisoners through the streets and try to sell their freedom to their families. They'd take car titles, family land and so forth. None of those people lived long in spite of the efforts. No, at the rate people were dying under Hussein there was a net gain during the occupation. Sorry, it doesn't justify the occupation, but the facts are hard to ignore. More people died under the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein than died between 2003-2009. The numbers from the World Health Organization, United Nations, Iraqi body Count Project, Iraqi Human Rights Ministry and the Classified War Logs agree.