James Wimberley, over at The Reality-Based Community, has posted a comprehensive review of the various attempts to count the bodies in Iraq.
It's staggering. The lowest reliable estimate is over 66,000. The more likely number is somewhere in the range of 613,000 excess deaths. Compare this to the roughly 3000 killed on 9/11, and you get a ratio of 200 to 1.
And why? Not because Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. Not because Saddam posed the slightest threat to the United States. Because this administration took it upon themselves to lie to the American people, to invade a country because they didn't approve of its form of government, and because they wanted its oil (not for our government, but for international corporations), because they wanted military bases in the country, and because they wanted to play God with people who didn't have our military might.
613,000 human beings.
613 thousand mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters...
613,000.
