To our knowledge, something like 200,000 people died at the hands of the secret police, 20,000 in Kurdish massacres, and 30,000 in post-Gulf War uprisings. And if you want to count Iraqi causalties in the Iran-Iraq War, that's 575,000 in the Iran-Iraq War. That's over a period of 25 years, and it doesn't quite add up to a million.
But I'd argue that we should keep the military casualties out of it in both cases -- including both the Iran-Iraq conflict and the insurgents we've been killing in this conflict. Just look at what life is like for an ordinary civilian Iraqi. This was my only point in bringing up the death toll: Is it more or less dangerous now in Iraq to go out for a pack of smokes?
The answer is obviously that it is more dangerous now.
I'll support your right to be wrong if you allow me to point out that you are wrong....
It could easily be argued that many who are killing the innocent were and are supporters of Saddam, others are people he let out of jail ....but then I guess that is the fault of the US government.....