119/day, ~43000/year
I tell my leftists friends this, that had we not invaded, the sanctions would still be in place. According to the leftists, these sanctions were killing anywhere from 30k to 1 million people a year. Makes us such heros.
Iraqi attacks on the Kurds continued throughout the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), culminating in 1988 with poison gas attacks on Kurdish villages to quash resistance and with the rounding up and execution of male Kurds. All of resulted in some 200,000 Kurdish deaths in that year alone.
http://berclo.net/page03/03en-notes-kurds.html
www.CIA.gov
They produce all the figures for everything.............
In Iraq under Saddam, if you are a woman, you could face:
Beheading. Under the pretext of fighting prostitution, units of "Fedayeen Saddam," the paramilitary organization led by Uday Hussein, Saddam's eldest son, have beheaded in public more than 200 women throughout the country, dumping their severed heads at their families' doorsteps. Many families have been required to display the victim's head on their outside fences for several days. These barbaric acts were carried out in the total absence of any proper judicial procedures and many of the victims were not engaged in prostitution, but were targeted for political reasons.
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Murder. In 1990, Saddam Hussein introduced Article 111 into the Iraqi Penal Code in a calculated effort to strengthen tribal support for his regime. This law exempts men who kill their female relatives in defense of their family's honor from prosecution and punishment. The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women reported that more than 4,000 women have been victims of so-called "honor killings" since Article 111 went into effect. (UN Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, January 2002)