Today, the President stated:
"Think how far that society has come from the days of torture chambers and mass graves," Bush said in Saginaw, Mich. "Freedom is on the march!"
This contrasts with a report that states "Poor planning, air strikes by coalition forces and a "climate of violence" have led to more than 100,000 extra deaths in Iraq"
More from BBC News:
"Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US city of Baltimore gathered data on births and deaths since January 2002 from 33 clusters of 30 households each across Iraq.
"They found the relative risk of death was one-and-a-half times higher for Iraqi civilians after the 2003 invasion than in the preceding 15 months.
"That figure jumps to two-and-a-half times higher if data from Falluja - the scene of repeated heavy fighting - is included.
"Before the invasion, most people died as a result of heart attack, stroke and chronic illness, the report says, whereas after the invasion, "violence was the primary cause of death.""
The President's platitudes aside, it sounds like the people of Iraq are worse off than they were four years ago when living under a brutal dictatorship.
Guess what, we are worse off as well. Fortunately, we can change our government without an invasion and air strikes. And next Tuesday, we will.
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