A study done by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, published today in the Lancet, claims that, since the US, Britain and Australia invaded Iraq, approximately 655,000 more civilians have died than would have been the case if there was no invasion. To put this in perspective, that’s over twice as many as Saddam killed in his 25 years in power! So, the answer to the usual conservative pro-war justification “Do you really think the Iraqis would have been better off if we left Saddam in power?” would seem to be a resounding “YES!”.

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