Amos,

I do not dispute those figures.

I do contend that, if the UN and the people protesting ANY US action had instead told Saddam that he should have complied with the UNB resolution, WHICH HE DID NOT, there would have been no invasion of Iraq, and no such casualties.




"To blame such a decision on those who insist on a better way is meretricious in the extreme and disingenuous, at best."

I do not see that telling Saddam he could (continue) to not comply with the UN and Iraq'a obligations under the cease-fire was a better way to get him to comply with the UN resolutions and terms of the cease-fire. To argue otherwise seems a little disingenious, at best.
Criminal, at worst.