Killing Iraqis to save them

Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.

The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones produced by other groups, including Iraq's government.

I have always hated the question, "would you rather Saddam be in power?" It makes it sound as if this war was the only alternative. But even if it was the only alternative, as it has turned out, having been conducted in this horrible fashion, the answer now appears to be yes. We would be safer with saddam still in power (for about a million reasons), and things would be better off for at least 600,000 Iraqis.