Some quick facts that shouldn't be ignored.
According to a research report from the medical paper The Lancet, the toll of deaths in Iraq since the start of the invasion until the date of release of that report (October 2006) was of 601,000.
Controversial as the report may be, The Lancet is one of the most reputed medical journals.
Report puts Iraqi death toll at 600,000
The blood for oil policy of America is not news to anyone:
http://forum.stirpes.net/geopolitcs/...s-oil-war.html
Should not be forgotten who has been Saddam's allied before it was decided that he should go:
How the CIA put Saddam's Party in Power
Nor some of the forseeable consequences of this war:
Iraq Conflict Feeds International Terror Threat
Iraq - Shi'ite Victory on the Polls
Last, but no least, the accusations of Saddam's persecution against Muslim Shi'ites reminded me that some people who visited Iraq a couple of decades reported that both Christians and Jews under Saddam's Iraq were free and treated well.
I've done a quick search on this and found this news from just a couple of days ago. Apparently this is no longer the case:
Christians flee post-Saddam Iraq
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–