Based on widely available sources (including Amnesty International, hardly a
Bush Administration shill), it appears that Saddam slaughtered an average of
around 30,000 people per year.

The anti-American loons at http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ list a *maximum* of
10,430 dead in the year since we invaded and removed Hussein. About 7272
occurred in the two months of military operations and the month after. So
the *maximum* death toll once hostilities ceased was about 3200 dead in the
remaining 9 months of the year. Taking this postwar rate and extending it
forward, one would expect about 4200 or so deaths in the first year after
May 2003.

4200 dead is *far* less than the 30,000 people killed by Saddam an an
average year.

This also makes a very interesting point about all those "compassionate"
people who opposed Saddam's removal. If his regime had lasted (say) another
10 years, past performance implies that he would have slaughtered ~300,000
or so. And of course, Uday and Qusay showed every indication of being just
as barbaric as Dad.

So these "compassionate" anti-war people apparently preferred that Saddam
slaughter hundreds of thousands of Iraqis rather than have the Americans
remove him.

With "friends" like that, the Iraqi people need no enemies...

--Ty