She said this:

I think we have alienated our allies and have killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did.

Arthur Chrenkoff gives Molly a spanking:

Really? More than all those dead Kurds of the Anfal Operation and the Shia of the ‘’91 uprising, more than all the other domestic opponents butchered over the years? And I’m not even counting the hundreds of thousands of lives wasted by Saddam in his two wars of aggression, and even more who denied food and medical treatment so that Saddam could make a political point about economic sanctions…

Read the whole thing.

E-mail Ivins at cre8ors-at-aol.com; subject line Molly Ivins.

Update:

Bob at Confederate Yankee e-mails some MollyMath…

Take estimates of 500,000-1 million soldiers and civilians killed in
the Iran-Iraq war triggered by Saddam Hussein, add the 400,000 dead
Iraqi civilians USAID estimates to be in at least 53 mass graves found
in Iraq so far, and then add the very conservative estimate of 22,000
dead as a result of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait=1,422,000.

Even using iraqbodycount.net’s high-end estimate of 25,000 dead
(total, by both sides) the numbers aren’t even close, unless you use
MollyMath, where a couple of ten thousand and some change is worth
more than a million.

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Previous (it’s my theme of the day!):

Brian Williams said what?
Nancy Pelosi said what?

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Update II, 7/14: It turns out that “the 400,000 dead Iraqi civilians USAID estimates to be in at least 53 mass graves” referred to by Confederate Yankee is a myth. Regardless, even Ivins now admits that her claim was bogus.

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