It’s politically incorrect among conservatives (and today’s conservatives are much more wedded to their own PC orthodoxies than liberals are to theirs) to say that Iraq was better off under Saddam. But PC be damned: Iraq was better off under Saddam, and there’s no reason to believe that more Iraqis would be dying if Saddam, horrible as he was, were still in power.

The point is not to “blame” the U.S. or U.K.; the point is simply to face the reality that after the “liberation” of Iraq, many more people have died than would have died if we hadn’t invaded. We should learn from that and reject the conservative PC orthodoxy that overthrowing a dictator always makes things better.

See also: http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/10/innumerate_cowa.html