A war against Iraq could kill half a million people, warns a new report by medical experts – and most would be civilians.
The report claims as many as 260,000 could die in the conflict and its three-month aftermath, with a further 200,000 at risk in the longer term from famine and disease. A civil war in Iraq could add another 20,000 deaths.
And the man who can save all of those lives, by submitting honestly to the will of the free world and allowing inspections, is Saddam Hussein. I am betting the authors had someone else in mind.