Reply #13: That 300,000 figure is false. [View All]

[LynnTheDem]

That figure was not meant to be the number of Iraqis killed. And that's a fact straight from the people who first came up with the figure, which was actually 200,000, which was an estimate of an estimate of all Iraqis not accounted for (including those who had simply moved out of Iraq) for 20 years. It was NEVER meant as "Iraqis killed by Hussein".

The figure originated with Human Rights Watch, and THEY THEMSELVES REFUSE to use the "200,000" or the since-inflated "300,000+" as any "number of Iraqis killed". HRW and AI have both subsequently sid their "unaccounted for" figures were "vastly overstated".

-How many remains have we found in mass graves?
Tony Blair admits 5100.

-Who killed themost Kurds?
The Kurds.

-How many Iraqis were listed as "disappeared" over the entire 20 years prior to bush's attack on Iraq, on;

bush's US Gov website? ...16,000

Human Rights Watch site? ...16,000

Amnesty International site? ...17,000

Bottom line is simple; Saddam Hussein and his government WERE NOT committing atrocities in Iraq and hadn't been for over a DECADE. No atrocities since 1991. No "mass-graving", no "people-shredders".

Not since the Iraqi insurgents were committing atrocities in their uprising, and the Iraqi government in turn put down the uprising.

And that's just fact.