Iraq

[chirpychirpy]

Another huge bomb kills loads in Baghdad. Why do these people feel such a need to kill? Can't they be educated to value life?

[TTG]

They are brainwashed into thinking they will enter paradise when dead.....for mindless murder.

[anotheoldgit]

Methinks, although he may have been a wicked tyrant , the Iraqis were much safer under Saddam's rule.

[Gromit]

Didn't have you down as a Saddam fan AOG:

//Saddam's death toll is approaching two million, including between 150,000 and 340,000 Iraqi and between 450,000 and 730,000 Iranian combatants killed during the Iran-Iraq War.

An estimated 1,000 Kuwaiti nationals killed following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. No conclusive figures for the number of Iraqis killed during the Gulf War, with estimates varying from as few as 1,500 to as many as 200,000.

Over 100,000 Kurds killed or "disappeared". No reliable figures for the number of Iraqi dissidents and Shia Muslims killed during Saddam's reign, though estimates put the figure between 60,000 and 150,000. (Mass graves discovered following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 suggest that the total combined figure for Kurds, Shias and dissidents killed could be as high as 300,000).

Approximately 500,000 Iraqi children dead because of international trade sanctions introduced following the Gulf War.//

Still 112 deaths today is bad, but a long way to go to catch up with the golden years of Saddam.

[Haggisdj]

My younger brother, Chris, passed away in Jan 2003. If he’s been as prolific in the last six and a half years as he was in the previous twenty then, trust me, there are no virgins in Heaven!!

[Gromit]

Oops, there was me thinking Saddam had invaded Iran and Kuwait and was directly responsible for the loss of lives that ensued.

Can we exonerate Adolf Hitler next, he might have invaded his neighbours, but was it his fault that they decided to fight back?