"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Yama" wrote:
Not to claim that Saddam didn't get lot of people killed, but above is
just
silly.

No, it's just math. Average of about 40,000 per year, including all of
the wars. If you include Iranians killed in the war, double that.

This math comes from where? Iraq suffered some 200,000 dead in Iraq-Iran
war, that is considerably less than 40,000 per year even during the war.

Let it be absolutely clear that this most recent war killed LOT more
than
5000 people.

The worst estimates I've seen were around 10,000, and that was from one
of the most-loony left-wing sites. There would have been a lot more,
but there just wasn't that much fighting against active resistance.
General estimates are under 5,000,

From where? Biggest estimates (from "loony left-wing sites") put the number
of civilian deaths alone to 13,000. Most reasonable estimate I've seen puts
the total amount of losses to 13,000, of which 4300 were civilians.

Hospitals of Basra alone reported receiving close to 2000 bodies before the
end of war. Neither the battles or the bombings in or around Basra were
anywhere near the intensity of those in Nasiriya, Karbala or Bagdad. US
military itself reported hundreds of dead Iraqi almost every day in ground
battles alone.