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Originally posted by bilmore
If you looked to his future reign absent us, and extrapolate what he'd done so far, yeah, I think that would be a reasonable assumption.
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If you extrapolate only from the period of time when we (a) weren't (a) supporting him, or (b) militarily containing him, you get a much lower death toll. E.g., his use of chemical weapons against the Kurds occurred in the late 1980s, not long after Rumsfeld went to Baghdad to give support to Iraq in its war with Iran, which we were more concerned about at the time.
