Robert Toy said:Since you brought up the subject:
[URL="http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE141342003?open&of=ENG-351"]http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE141342003?open&of=ENG-351[/URL]
from the URL: Over the years tens of thousands or possibly hundreds of thousands of people were killed by Iraqi security forces
What it doesn't say is what the range of years are. We heavily supported Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war, so any killing during or before that time would have been considered "acceptable" to the Reagan administration as reflected by the Donald Rumsfeld handshake.
The only killings that can be used to justify invading Iraq would occur once we stopped supporting Saddam, so I'm looking for the death toll for civilians by Saddam from around 1989 and forward. Amnesty International puts the number at tens of thousands (with a possibility for hundreds of thousands) since the 1960's. that's about four decades for those numbers.
During the American occupation, we've seen hundreds of thousands of civilians die in the three years we've been there.
So, if anyone argues that Saddam was murdering civilians and we invaded Iraq to make the country a safer better place, the numbers say we've long since failed that mission and made the coutry far worse.