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Iraq resolves legal battles over torture

By jimstaro - Posted on 01 May 2011


Lawmakers approve $400 million payment to settle U.S. lawsuits



Many Iraqis consider themselves victims of both Hussein's regime and the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and wonder why they should pay for wrongs committed by the ousted dictator.



''They explained very well what was the settlement and how it will be negative if we don't approve it,'' he said. ''That's why people were persuaded.''


''It's better to compensate the Iraqi martyrs and detainees than the Americans,'' he said. {continued}

"hundreds" of Americans who claim they were traumatized and are now owed restitution. Okay, let's round the hundreds to an even 1000 Americans. At $400,000,000 that's $400,000 apiece at least.
Estimates of Iraqi dead range from 100,000 all the way to a million; there are no estimates of Iraqi injured. Let's split the difference: 500,000 dead, and let's guess 4 times as many injured, or 2 million injured. We'll omit the Iraqi traumatized altogether and we'll say an iraqi injury counts only twice as much as an American trauma and an Iraqi death only 5 times as much, just to give it some calculable American exceptionalist type of number. Even so, 500,000 x $2,000,000 = $1,000,000,000,000; & 2,000,000 x $800,000 = $1,600,000,000,000. Together that's $2,600,000,000,000 or $2 trillion 600 billion. That sounds good for a start.

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