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Iraq is better off now?
Monday, August 15, 2005 at 03:27 PM

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Recent statements by Howard Dean and Cindy Sheehan that life in Iraq is no better, or even worse, after Saddam's reign was ended by the US invasion need to be considered. Fortunately, they can be fact-checked.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, Deaniacs and Sheehanites will have to reconsider their position.



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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!!]

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