The Jews weren't merely gassed. Many were tortured, starved, and worked to death. When the Allied land forces approached, some of the camps forced Jews to go on death marches. For a better understanding of what happened to the Jews, I suggest reading Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners.

And, of course, your strawman of "millions of Iraqis killed in deathcamps" is asinine.

You're trying Odin so you get points for that (most here just surrender without firing a post) but you'll be hard pressed to find me generating strawmen arguments or paragraphs strewn with hypercritical hyperbole. Here's some reading for you to catch up on. This way when I throw the word millions around you'll realize the figure is not an exaggeration.

WARNING!: SOME LINKS CONTAIN GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF HORROR AND ATROCITIES COMMITTED UPON OTHER HUMANS. USE DISCRETION AND PLEASE VIEW WHEN CHILDREN ARE NOT PRESENT.

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The exact figure is unknown but 300,000 bodies alone are estimated by an "expert" to be in the 250 identified mass grave sites around Iraq. Unfortunately, these 250 known sites are just the tip of the iceberg. Mass graves are literally everywhere. Like Stalin's purgings the torture and execution of citizens in Iraq for 23 years has easily led to a million or more deaths. (I believe an easy case can be made that roughly 44,000 were executed per year all over Iraq) We know that after the first gulf war and the subsequent uprising alone that over 180,000 people were taken and disappeared. My choice of the "death camps" to describe how they were killed is not really 100% accurate. In Iraq every town and every city was a "death camp" complete with locations to apprehend, torture and execute victims in front of their families/children. Unlike Germany where Jews and prisoners of war were kept away from the general population in death camps - Saddam's power was built upon fear, and executions or torture in front of the locals was a tool to retain absolute control.

However, would it really make you feel better if I said "an unknown amount in excess of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed in Saddam's death cities?" Does any of this really matter when describing a torturing, mass-murdering dictator?

You've allowed yourself to believe what the left is pushing, namely that Saddam wasn't as bad as the US made him out. The truth of the matter is - he was worse. As a human being, he and Hitler are made of the same cloth. Either could kill you and your kids and not blink an eye. However, my personal opinion is that Saddam was even more sadistic than Hitler. Hitler distanced himself from the atrocities. He was sick but kept up the pretenses of being civilized. It is well known that Hussein often took personal visits to those being tortured and had a hands-on approach with many of his "important" victims or disloyal family members. He also kept video tapes of his victims' tortures and watched them repeatedly. (According to an ex-mistress)

If your argument is that Hitler was worse than Hussein - I think your argument is weak. Now If your argument was Stalin is worse than Hussein that position could be argued fairly well. Saddam is a small-scale Stalin. Stalin had the benefit of an enormous amount of humanity residing over a third of the earth to torture and liquidate. Hussein was limited to Iraq much as Hitler was limited primarily to Germany and some of the nations he briefly held during WWII.

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