I didn't research it.  I'm using the number that I've heard "thrown 
around", which is why I asked the question, "isn't it generally 
accepted?".  I don't know the number... I don't know if anyone does.  I did 
a quick google search and came up with this story about ethnic cleansing 
under Hussein:

http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/politics/0000374.php

But my point was that the numbers killed by allied forces in Iraq appear to 
pale in comparison to the numbers who are killed by oppressive regimes on 
an on-going basis.  That doesn't make it OK to kill, but is it OK to watch 
people be slaughtered?  War is a dirty business...war is hell.  But what's 
the lesser of 2 evils here?

John Lee





At 01:03 PM 4/14/06 -0400, Bruce Collins wrote:
>John Lee wrote:
>>I thought it was pretty well accepted that Iraq's regime was responsible 
>>for some 300,000 murders over the past few years?  We haven't even begun 
>>to count others.
>
>Just out of curiosity, where do you come up with that figure?
>
>The chemical bombing in 1988 killed about 5,000 Kurds (according to fox 
>news http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105708,00.html ). Since that was 
>probably the high point I would guess that the number killed by the Iraqi 
>regime in the past few years (prior to the invasion) would be much less.
>
>In fact, the number of civilians killed in the 3 years prior to the 
>invasion would likely be less than the 30,000 or so killed in the 3 years 
>since.
>
>Bruce
>
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