Posted by Rab on 05/31/06 18:48

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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> Iraq Less Violent than Washington, D.C.
>
> Despite media coverage purporting to show that escalating violence in
> Iraq has the country spiraling out of control, civilian death
> statistics complied by Rep. Steve King, R-IA, indicate that Iraq
> actually has a lower civilian violent death rate than Washington, D.C.
>
> Appearing with Westwood One radio host Monica Crowley on Saturday,
> King said that the incessantly negative coverage of the Iraq war
> prompted him to research the actual death numbers.
>
> "I began to ask myself the question, if you were a civilian in Iraq,
> how could you tolerate that level of violence," he said. "What really
> is the level of violence?"
>
> Using Pentagon statistics cross-checked with independent research,
> King said he came up with an annualized Iraqi civilian death rate of
> 27.51 per 100,000.
>
> While that number sounds high - astonishingly, the Iowa Republican
> discovered that it's significantly lower than a number of major
> American cities, including the nation's capital.
>
> "It's 45 violent deaths per 100,000 in Washington, D.C.," King told
> Crowley.
>
> Other American cities with higher violent civilian death rates than
> Iraq include:
>
> # Detroit - 41.8 per 100,000
>
> # Baltimore - 37.7 per 100,000
>
> # Atlanta - 34.9 per 100,000
>
> # St. Louis - 31.4 per 100,000
>
> The American city with the highest civilian death rate was New Orleans
> before Katrina - with a staggering 53.1 deaths per 100,000 - almost
> twice the death rate in Iraq.
>

Does that include or exclude women and children slaughtered by US troops?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5033648.stm

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