re: 30 to 1 losses for Iraqis then vs. now.
I can't find my original source any more.
You can find numbers at Human Rights Watch and other organizations. A book published in France called "The Black Book of Saddam Hussein" puts the number of Iraqi victims at about 1 million.
This article covers more numbers, but comes up with an average about 15,000 to 20,000 killed by Saddam per year.
This article talks about 70 to 125 civilian deaths a day.
The ratio varies, as you can see. In any case, the ratio is certainly much larger than 1 to 1.
The Iraq War is being discussed in a vacuum, as though Saddam's regime had never existed.