[csmpltn]

Plenty of people died under Saddam, too. Do you think the average Iraqi would choose to go back and live under Saddam?

[greazy]

During the years which followed after the invasion, lots did, yes. This is first hand account btw. Now? I'm not sure as the country has mostly stablised.

[bjourne]

Estimates put the number of people killed due to the American invasion between half a million and a million. Saddam's brutality paled in comparison to the carnage the US invasion caused.

[wqaatwt]

This also includes indirect deaths?

But if you add up the Iraq-Iran war and all his domestic atrocities it’s not that far (and these are only direct casualties).