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Originally Posted by Shek
Your logic does not follow. If the study is wrong (which the Roberts et al study was), then your basis for claiming too many deaths can fail because you must look at the counterfactual, which then includes a continued sanctions regime and Saddam the benevolent deciding which potential regime enemies should he kill. Ergo, you cannot claim your conclusion to be a simple fact.
You must look at both what is seen and what was unseen.
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Was Saddam a terrible dictator that had several of his people killed: YES
Did he burned down Kurdish villages: YES
Did he deserve to die for his crimes: YES
But in no way can you convince me that as many people where dying (in this decade), I am a news junkie and have been for 20+ years I do not remember reading or hearing about daily violence that claimed several lives a day. You very well know that there are more people dying in Iraq in a daily basis than there were 5 years ago.