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IRAQ WAR: Pros and cons



Davud Crow writes; "I assume that when Tom Grey states that "the number of innocent people who are dead because we ousted Saddam is dwarfed by the number of innocent people who are dead because we didn't", he has estimates for both of those figures. I would be grateful if he would share the empirical basis for his statement with WAISers.

The "Iraq Body Count" web site (www.iraqbodycount.net) uses responsible press reports to estimate the minimum and maximum number of civilian deaths. Those figures stand at 1,402 and 1,817 now. The true question for me is whether the Iraqi civilians killed by the war were unnecessary deaths that heaped more misery on a people already tormented by an evil dictator. If the answer to that question is yes, then Mr. Grey's bookkeeping exercise doesn't mean much".

Ronald Hilton - 4/16/03


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