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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
You forgot the billions in illegal oil flow, and then that little statistic of 1.5million civilian deaths due to neglect from Saddam hording the aid money.
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While I have no doubt Saddam caused tons of needless deaths, I'm curious about the origin of that number, as there has not been a reasonably accurate census done in Iraq for about 20 years.
This is the only guesstimate data from the CIA world fact book I could locate:
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=iz&v=21