That's right. Genocidal purges (Saddam's own "war against terror", you might say) caused the deaths of tens of thousands of his own people, wars, the murder of potential enemies. Total death toll of around two million. The majority of people killed by Hussein's regime were those who died in the Iraq-Iran war, a conflict supported by the US.Originally Posted by Dr Unne
However, the act of being an Iraqi or US citizen doesn't make anyone inherently complicit in those terrible acts. You can't say they deserve to die, or it's ok to kill them because they lived in an 'evil' country; likewise, it's pretty low to say "it's all right to kill a few thousand more of them, by accident, if the end result will be peace".
