Death by Saddam - 50,000 + civilian deaths of Shi'ites
Death by US military invasion - 132,984 - 149,819 documented deaths of civilians (click here)
With the death of so many of a single ethnicity in 2002 there should have been a meeting of the UN Security Council to move against Saddam in a meaningful way to stop the cleansing of Shi'ites and to provide aid to the Shi'ites of southern Iraq.
The southern No Fly Zone was already effective, Saddam needed to be tried at the World Court, even in absentia. The world focus on the removal of Saddam would have resulted in different outcomes to the people and it's government. The war by the USA only increased suspicion and fear of each other. That is what resulted in Baghdad. Of the three ethnicities in Iraq, it was the Shi'ites that had lost the largest number of people. Their need to control the government's central authority was important.
The so called moral war is non-existent. There are far more deaths with a US military invasion than the global community's vigilance.
It is why the people of the USA named their military "The Department of Defense," not, the Moral War Authority based on USA assessment of deployment of assets.
Death by US military invasion - 132,984 - 149,819 documented deaths of civilians (click here)
With the death of so many of a single ethnicity in 2002 there should have been a meeting of the UN Security Council to move against Saddam in a meaningful way to stop the cleansing of Shi'ites and to provide aid to the Shi'ites of southern Iraq.
The southern No Fly Zone was already effective, Saddam needed to be tried at the World Court, even in absentia. The world focus on the removal of Saddam would have resulted in different outcomes to the people and it's government. The war by the USA only increased suspicion and fear of each other. That is what resulted in Baghdad. Of the three ethnicities in Iraq, it was the Shi'ites that had lost the largest number of people. Their need to control the government's central authority was important.
The so called moral war is non-existent. There are far more deaths with a US military invasion than the global community's vigilance.
It is why the people of the USA named their military "The Department of Defense," not, the Moral War Authority based on USA assessment of deployment of assets.
