Wiki War

Glenn notes that the Wikileaks doc dump further discredits various well-debunked antiwar theories.

Four things to remember here in 2010:

1) 90%+ of civilians killed in Iraq were killed by Al Qaeda or Iran-affiliated militias, not coalition forces, who lost about 5,000 troops -- most killed defending Iraqi civilians from those groups.

2) Saddam's use of WMD against the Kurds, state sponsorship of terrorism, and refusal to cooperate with WMD disarmament in combination with a collapsing, corrupted sanctions regime required that we either live with the increasing likelihood of a WMD terrorist attack or remove a Stalinist dictator and attempt to kickstart freedom and democracy in a stagnant, repressive region.

3) Saddam's regime killed an average of 3,000 to 7,000 people a month by most estimates, even including the 12-year period in which the no-fly zones curbed his most genocidal tendencies. We've probably saved around 500,000 lives net by removing him, even considering the additional number killed by Iranian militias and AQ before those problems were largely brought under control.

4) Life is far better in Iraq in 2010 than in 2003 by virtually every measure -- basic services, basic rights, and GDP per capita are all at levels unseen in the Saddam era.

posted by Dave on 10.24.10 at 11:10 AM





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I agree with you fully, Dave, but , since these facts go against the leftist-liberal narrative, I wonder if the MSM or any principled leftist( if there are any) will ever admit to these facts.

Daniel Fielding Smith   ·  October 24, 2010 12:10 PM

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