Saddam's numbers

10-05-05 | Gman992

[gman992]

Can anybody show me a link that has the estimated total number of people Saddam has killed??

[VegasVic]

http://www.gbn.com/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=2400&msp=1242

[Peach]

Laurie Mylroie and Judith Miller wrote a book in the 80's that estimated Saddam killed well over one million people at that time.

There is no way to know. Secretive society, etc.

[lonestar67]

I do not have the links but I would urge you to include the casualties of the Iran/Iraq war which most analysts blame on Saddam.

This war killed about 1 million Iranians and Iraqis.

Roughly 500,000 people were killed by Saddam in domestic purges such as the Kurdish chemical attacks and the Shiite uprising after gulf war 1.

This makes a total of roughly 1.5 million.

[dbehsman]

I remember reading a while back that Amnesty International estimated that saddam had killed at least 300,000. Then again, Amnesty also called gitmo the gulag of our time. If you need this information to argue with a liberal, use the Amnesty numbers. Liberals worship Amnesty International. It will be tough for a liberal to ignore those numbers.

[silverleaf]

http://www.gbn.com/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=2400&msp=1242

http://wais.stanford.edu/Iraq/iraq_deathsundersaddamhussein42503.html

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/15996.htm

http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/iraqfocus1.pdf

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/h/hu/human_rights_in_saddams_iraq1.htm

[PAR35]

1.3 million to 2 million seem to be the best range of estimates. (Shiites, Kurds, murders of friends and enemies, and then add it a million or so for the Iran war. A few more for Kuwait.)

Google genocide 20th century http://www.google.com/search?hs=cQz&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=genocide+20th+century&btnG=Search

or Google Saddam genocide

[PAR35]

You registered today just to blame the US for Saddam's killings and to suggest that the US has made prisoners disappear? And you found a thread that's been dead for 6 months to do it?

Spelling, punctuation, and your sign up date suggest you might be a troll.