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  • Ivins: Cursing power deregulation, erring badly on Saddam's deadly toll

    07/13/2005 2:13:58 PM PDT · by BigEdLB · 32 replies · 959+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 7/12/05 | Molly Ivins
    Crow eaten here: This is a horror. In a column (Opinion, June 29) I asserted that more Iraqis (civilians) had now been killed in this war than had been killed by Saddam Hussein over his 24-year rule. Wrong. Really, really wrong. The only problem is figuring out by how large a factor I was wrong. I had been keeping an eye on civilian deaths in Iraq for a couple of months, waiting for the most conservative estimates to creep over 20,000, which I had fixed in my mind as the number of Iraqi civilians Saddam had killed. ------------------------------------------------------- There have...