I would bet not. For example, the vast majority of rational studies of Iraqi death tolls put the death count caused by the war at 100K-200K. The one-million figure is probably that Lancet study that got laughed out of intelligent discourse, finding it's ways instead to the sub-basements of liberal bile and anger, to fester and mold and mutate into something hideous and hateful, unable to show it's face in civilized company without ridicule.
There is no point in debating the Iraq Invasion with you. Anyone that still thinks there is any justification for going there, is quite simply beyond hope or reason.
There is no study that shows less than 100,000 deaths. That is 100,000 deaths too many. These people were God's children just as you and I are.
And worth no less than we are.
The reason that some people view the larger results in contempt is because they only view us as responsible for people we directly killed.
Other people accept responsibility for the sectarian violence that we opened the door for.
While others also include the Iraqi's still dying as a result of destroying their infrastructure. This would be deaths attributed to lack of proper resources, medicine, health care, deaths from poverty, and etc.
This is why I put forth 2 categories. Direct and Indirect.
The deaths are still adding up each and every day at an astounding rate. With no end in sight.
At what point is our responsibility finished? What if the sectarian strife continues for 50 years? Will we be responsible until Iraq is as secure as it was before we took it apart? Or did our responsibility end once we left?
These are the questions that result in vastly different numbers.
Attacking numbers without reason is pointless. If you disagree, then it is not the numbers to which you find fault, it is the extent of our responsibility.
Here are several different calculations. Not one of them shows the full indirect extent of the death caused as an indirect result of our actions.
And not one of them calculates the future deaths that continue to pile up.
For the sake of argument, say it was only half of the lowest number. 45,000
Can you imagine just how many ended lives that truly is? If they were all in a row they would stretch for over 25 miles.
Casualties of the Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia