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Compare and contrast (we’re number 1! we’re number 1!)

Iraqi nationals killed by Saddam Hussein (1973-2003) Iraqi nationals killed during the US-sponsored Bellum omnium contra omnes (2003-present)

250,000-290,000

(via Human Rights Watch)

655,000

(via The Lancet)

Saddam Hussein was only able to average 12-15,000 deaths a year, and he had to (in his brutal fashion) put down a civil war. The United States has managed to set up a "state" where the various neo-Khmer Rouge factions are killing over 200,000 people a year.

That's pretty impressive, if brutal mass murder was the intent.

(-- reference via Daily Kos)

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It’s the neo-types that are killing the Iraq nationals though, not Americans. These are the people that we are trying to get rid of.

Aaron Tue Feb 19 11:03:12 2008

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