The counter above gives a maximum and minimum estimate of the dead in Iraq, it is live and updates in real time.

There was so much attention given to the death of one man, Saddam Hussein, that it is time to refocus on the deaths of those others who are dying every day in Iraq.

The counter faithfully records the deaths as they are reported, each death is recorded and if you check back in a day or even a matter of hours it is scary to see how many more people have died.

This is where our attention should be focused. Not on dead dictators but on people just like you and me who are dying daily in a country that is supposed to be liberated and free.

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In Desert Storm the US lost 148 and Iraqi civillian dead numbered 35,000.

Today there are now over 3,000 dead US soliders in Iraq and there are almost 60,000 Iraqi civillians dead.

According to Bush's spokesman Scott Stanzel the US president "grieves for each one that is lost" and "will ensure their sacrifice was not made in vain."

Saddam has answered for his butchery. Will Rumsfeld and Bush answer for their role in these deaths?

Saddam Hussein is dead. Killed by his country for his crimes against his people, the Kurds, the Marsh Arabs and those others whom he killed at will.

It must be noted that for many years the US supplied Saddam with the weapons and chemical warfare agents that he used in these crimes.

Hanging the 69-year-old former dictator of Iraq solves nothing and only closes another chapter in Iraq's bloody history.

The violence will still go on and Iraqis, Americans, British and others will continue to die on the streets; victims of the hatred of others who have been allowed to rise to the top in the chaos following the invasion of Iraq.

Saddam Hussein should have been sent to rot in prison for the rest of his life. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is poor justice and only condones further violence as a means to an end.

Saddam is gone but the hatred he espoused towards others lives on.