Iraq summary

Juan Cole has a good summary of the consequences of the invasion of Iraq:

-4 million Iraqis displaced from their homes out of a population of 27 million--that's 15% of the population.
-Dead Iraqis: estimates vary from hundreds of thousands to over a million. The Lancet study suggested that the US was directly responsible for a third of all violent deaths since 2003. That would be as much as 300,000 that the US killed directly. For the rest, the US only set in train their deaths by our invasion.
-Baghdad has been turned from a mixed city, about half of its population Shiite and the other half Sunni in 2003, into a Shiite city where the Sunni population may be as little as ten to fifteen percent.
-Hundred of thousands of women have been widowed by the war--something to keep in mind next time you hear that the invasion improved Iraqi women's lives.
-$32 billion were allocated for reconstruction in Iraq, but a lot of it was wasted and can't even be traced.