Anti-war protesters were right. Iraq invasion has led to chaos.

[Stevepol]

6. Actually, there have been several good counts.

It's noted that "countless lives (literally – no one counts them) have been lost, and will continue to be so for many years to come."

But actually I believe it was the Nation that combined some of the best estimates and countings of the dead on both sides AND both direct and indirect deaths, the latter including "excess deaths." They came up with their estimate based on an "expected death rate" before and after the invasion. Actually Suddein's Iraq had a pretty good system of hospitals, at least in terms of record keeping. It was possible to come up with an "expected rate of death" for pre-invasion Iraq. Anything above that figure was considered to be an "indirect" death.

Using that method and just adding together the other good estimates and published reports, etc. The Nation came up with a best estimate of between .8M and 1.3M. In other words, about one million deaths were caused by the war. And that was just up to the time of the article. Since then, the death rate is still certainly greater than what it was under Saddam, so the total best estimate is still growing I'm sure. The UN estimated that, aside from the dead, there were 4.5M displaced Iraqis.

The war was brought on by the warring murderous impulses of those who never bother to look at the possibility that they might be wrong and that, if they are, the results would be a horrendous tragedy for the US and for the world. These people were and are the ones least able to reason from "facts" to obvious consequences of certain actions in light of those facts, in other words, people like those who populate the Fox News offices and broadcast studios, and the easily led, brainless sheep who worship at Fox's altar.