How many people would be alive today?

I was just thinking. How many people would be alive today if the Iraq war never happened? For sure, there would be 2319 US soldiers alive. In addition, there would be 103 British soldiers alive and another 103 soldiers from other coalition countries alive. Among them the heaviest causalties were probably Italians and Spaniards.

So, think of it, 2319 Americans would be alive today if we were not led into that insane war. We are talking about people with families, brothers, sisters, parents, friends, lovers. People with jobs, studies, ambitions, aspirations, hopes, feelings. People like us. And they are all dead now. But they could be still alive pursuing their goals....

Talking about the numbers of civilian Iraqi casualties is more difficult. It is, for sure, tens of thousands, and possibly, more than 100,000 at this point. There has been no documented count prior to 2005. In 2005, 7516 Iraqi civilians died and 3029 police and military killed. And these are conservative estimates...

And one wonders whether all this would have happened if someone else was elected in 2000. It is hard to believer that a Gore administration would have behaved in such an irrational, irresponsible and reckless manner as the Bush administration did to start the war. This war should have never happened. It was obvious to the Europeans then that there was no imminent threat and no urgency to invade Iraq and they desperately tried to stop the Bush administration from pursuing this illogical war. But they failed. History will be very harsh in its judgement of this administration. It is probably the most disastrous error made by a president in our history.