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If this study is right we would see the ‘proof’ of it in the demographics, which would point to a stagnant population, flat line mortality rate, flat line life expectancy and so on as compared to the years under Saddam. However, just the opposite is true. Overall population is up by 2 million in 4 years, life expectancy is higher, infant mortality is lower, number of deaths per 1,000 is lower than it was during Saddam’s reign and this is WITH the problems seen there, and such things as fertility rate and number of births per 1,000 are lower which are leading indicators of putting off childbirth in order to efficiently manage family size. That last one in India is seen as a leading indicator of economic prosperity and hope for the future, and the exact same thing is seen in Iraq, with the Nation now being a net agricultural exporter, electricity production above the maximum that the system was designed to carry, all of the children now having staffed schools to attend, and over 55% of the Nation handed over completely to Iraqi forces to control and administer.

So, where are the dead folks? With the numbers from this study the dead should be piling up in the streets, unburied, day in and day out. What *is* happening is an expanding population, economy and employment, which has increased so much that unemployment levels are now within a few percentage points of most European Nations.

This is a very strange war that increases life expectancy,increases population, decreases infant mortality, expands the economy, feeds the Nation, and employs individuals at high rates at legitimate jobs. Actually, with those kind of changes, the world could use *more* such wars… fought properly, efficiently and with a look out towards building something better. Which is what every critic of the US since Vietnam has complained about… and once that kind of war actually arrives? Complaints.