Tuatara's criteria is the only credible criteria that can be used when discussing comparable death rates. This is because any invasion and subsequent occupation of a foreign nation is the catalyst for all subsequent killing, irrespective of who is actually denotating the bomb or pulling the trigger. For this reason, we have to analyse death rates from the outset of the invasion back in 2003. According to figures published by the British medical journal The Lancet, 1.2 million Iraqi's have died violent deaths who would otherwise have been alive had the invasion not occured, 7 million injured and 4 million displaced out of a total population of 28 million. Whatever his faults, Saddam killed a fraction of this, an estimated 300,000 -500,000