I preferred it when the History Channel was the constant re-run of WWII material and, thus, The Hitler Channel. Now its into things that can be entertaining, but aren’t what I would call ‘history’. YMMV.

Not only is the first one bogus using the Lancet numbers, it is underestimating by a factor of at least four the amount dead due to Saddam Hussein from his rise to power to his extraction from a spider hole. The number it has is *just* for the Shia uprising in 1992, and an underestimate by all accounts. No one has done an accurate tally of roadside graves, bodies buried in copses of trees or the number actually disappeared into Saddam’s jails with shredders. All attributable to the tyrant’s bloody rise to power and fall from it.