Originally Posted by Martin2005

Fewer would of been 'kiiled', but far more would of died.

Infant mortality rate was just awful in Iraq under Sadam, it's now much much lower, on that score alone we have saved 100's thousands of lives over the past 8 years.

Of course sanctions had much to do with the high mortality rate, but those would never of been lifted whilst Sadam was in power, for me it just adds power to the argument that we did the right thing in getting rid of him.