{"id":889,"date":"2006-11-06T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/11\/06\/the-price-of-democracy\/"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:59:57","slug":"the-price-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/11\/06\/the-price-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a post over at Lethbridgiana<\/a>, I was reminded of two pieces of information related to the recent announcement that Saddam Hussein would be hanged.<\/p>\n

This morning’s Lethbridge Herald<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

President George W. Bush called the verdict ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00eca milestone in the Iraqi people?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s efforts to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law.?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u00ac\u00f9<\/p>\n

?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00ecIt?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s a major achievement for Iraq?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s young democracy and its constitutional government,?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u00ac\u00f9 the president said.<\/p>\n

?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00ecToday, the victims of this regime have received a measure of the justice which many thought would never come,?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u00ac\u00f9 he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an article in last month’s issue<\/a> of The Lancet<\/cite>, a UK medical journal, Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, Les Roberts claimed:<\/p>\n

We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654,965 . . . excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2.5% of the population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601,027 . . . were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is the price of over half a million deaths a reasonable price to pay for democracy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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