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Originally Posted by LetsTalk
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.
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AFP: Saddam-era torture tools in mobile museum of horror
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# Iraq, Saddam Hussein (1979-2003): 300 000
* Human Rights Watch: "twenty-five years of Ba`th Party rule ... murdered or 'disappeared' some quarter of a million Iraqis" [http://www.hrw.org/wr2k4/3.htm]
* 8/9 Dec. 2003 AP: Total murders
o New survey estimates 61,000 residents of Baghdad executed by Saddam.
o US Government estimates a total of 300,000 murders
+ 180,000 Kurds k. in Anfal
+ 60,000 Shiites in 1991
+ 50,000 misc. others executed
o "Human rights officials" est.: 500,000
o Iraqi politicians: over a million
* [These don't include the million or so dead in the Iran-Iraq War.]
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A photo essay of Iraq's mass graves
In truth we will never know, but what we do know is that some mass graves at the time of the invasion were no more than a few months old. So how many would Saddam have killed between 2003 and now, and how many died without counting the death toll of the Iran/Iraq war?