Invasion Of Iraq Has Saved Hundreds Of Thousands Of Iraqi Lives
Over the weekend, the Associated Press reported that some 110,600 Iraqis have died since the US invasion in 2003. That’s a high, tragic number that will no doubt have the left falling all over themselves to blame America for it. Despite the fact that the vast majority of those Iraqis wouldn’t have died if the terrorists hadn’t killed them. But I digress.
While that number is high, it’s actually a big improvement over the way things were in Iraq both during the Clinton-era embargo and the earliest days of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The rate of death since the US invasion of Iraq has averaged about 1,536 lives/month. Under Saddam that number was 3,035 lives/month. Under Saddam who was in turn under the Clinton-era embargo, the number was 9,259 lives/month.
The invasion of Iraq saved lives. Iraqis are a lot better off now then they were when we invaded. I recognize that runs directly into a brick wall of liberal presumption about the war, but what is politically convenient for the left usually bears little resemblance to what is, in fact, true.
