I was tooling around the internet this morning and hit upon Ben Hoffman’s site. He had some really good activity on the War in Iraq. One of my comments there gave me reason to maybe make a post of my own.
Make no mistake about it, this war is and always has been about what is good for America. We may have been wrong, we may have been right. But the reasons we invaded were reasons that would benefit the good ‘ol US of A.
Some think that we invaded because we thought there were weapons of mass destruction. Others think that we invaded to give us better leverage in Middle East politics. Some feel we invaded for oil. And others yet think that we invaded because Dubya wanted revenge for his Daddy.
Whatever the reason we went in, the fact remains that we did. And those from the Left are pissed. Pah-issed. If it ain’t the money we spent it’s the lives that have been lost. Not only ours, but those of the innocent Iraqi civilians too. They just scream that we are killing civilians. Let’s take a look.
Saddam Hussein became President of Iraq in July of 1979. The United States overthrew him in April of 2003. During that time, Saddam was responsible for between 600,000 and 1,000,000 civilian death. When you break down the deaths per month, and only Iraqi civilian deaths–not ALL deaths, you get between 2,105 and 3,509 civilian deaths per month. These are deaths due to Saddam Hussein being in power.
Now, let’s flash forward to the US invasion. We removed Saddam from power 78 months ago. If Saddam remained in power for those 78 months, he would have put to death between 164,190 and 273,702 innocent Iraqi civilians. Using the numbers provided by this Liberal website we see that between 93,793 and 102,330 people have died due to the invasion. The difference for the average civilian in Iraq since the US invasion toppled Saddam?
Between 70,397 and 171,372 more of their neighbors, friends and family would have been killed.
Makes you wonder why the Liberal Left hates the average Iraqi so much, doesn’t it?
I have always maintained that the Leftist has an unfair advantage. THEY get to preach the populist message while we’re left holding the bag for being responsible.