Genuine question - how do you get that 1 million figure?
In the case of Iraq, the deaths were due to two reasons
- President Bush 1's strategy to destroy civil infrastructure (water purification plants, sewage plants), which resulted in...bad water and mass deaths via disease
- President Clinton's sanctions which disallowed almost everything as dual use and prevented critical relief, essentially starving society for 8+ years.
The interview is from half-way thru the Clinton term.
I was directly involved in U.S. CIVCAS mitigation measures in a Daesh convoy engagement by U.S. air power in the summer of 2016. I cannot comment on anything that transpired within the classified space. However, there was substantial reporting on the discrepancy between the measures implemented by U.S. drone strikes during the engagement, and measures implemented by Iraqi helicopters during the engagement. I encourage you to think about what that discrepancy might mean, if true, about how you're using those numbers.
Looking at the breakdown:
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/20...
I dont see how it can be seen as anything but a humanitarian disaster