America has now killed more Iraqi civilians than Saddam

A new study asserts that roughly 600,000 Iraqis have died from violence since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, a figure many times higher than any previous estimate. Human Rights Watch has estimated Saddam Hussein's regime killed 250,000 to 290,000 people over 20 years.

This makes my heart sink. It's on nytimes.com, too.
The numbers may be skewed, but that doesn't make this any less horrifying. Why? Why?

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