Angry in the Great White North

In this post, I noted how both Howard Dean and Cindy Sheehan are playing up the notion of how much worse, or at least, no better, life is for the people of post-Saddam Iraq. Winds of Change puts that notion to rest with this piece by Donald Sensing:

In other words, the death rate in Iraq today is less than half of the rate suffered under Saddam, not including a few hundred thousand Iraqis killed in the war with Iran, 1980-1988. So by this measure it is not true that the Iraqi people are suffering more now than under Saddam, as many of the war's critics like to claim. Furthermore, the 45/100K death rate in Iraq is not close to that of some other countries.

The original post includes links to references.

[Oops update: Because of a global search and replace, I accidently inverted Howard Dean's name in several places, and in several posts. D'oh!!]