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[abu nuwas]

Without wishing to appear contrary, Wikipedia has just told me that Saddam began the Iraq-Iran war -- a conventional war lasting eight years -- by invading Persia, in 1980. It estimates the dead at half a million. I don't think the wildest estimates would put American interventions on that scale, and that does not include Saddam's attacks and murders of his own people, or his responsibility for the deaths in the First Gulf War when he invaded Kuwait.