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Posted by NoNoBadDog! on 05/31/06 19:01
"Rab" <rab4248189067@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
> news:447d9304.88233468@news-server.houston.rr.com...
>> Iraq Less Violent than Washington, D.C.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> "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?"
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> "It's 45 violent deaths per 100,000 in Washington, D.C.," King told
>> Crowley.
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>> Other American cities with higher violent civilian death rates than
>> Iraq include:
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>> # Detroit - 41.8 per 100,000
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>> # Baltimore - 37.7 per 100,000
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>> # Atlanta - 34.9 per 100,000
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>> # St. Louis - 31.4 per 100,000
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>> 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.
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> Does that include or exclude women and children slaughtered by US troops?
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5033648.stm
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American troops do not slaughter women and children.
You are a sick f*cktard.
Here's a newsflash for you, sh*thead; in a *WAR*, people die. Sometimes,
those people happen to be women and children. They were not targeted. They
were not intentionally killed.
For your information, Iraqi insurgents kill at least 10 times as many women
and children as do the coalition forces.
You sit on your fat pasty pimple-riddled ass and pass judgment on those you
know nothing about.
The men and women of the coalition forces are there doing what is asked of
them, as opposed to you,
you chicken-sh*t coward sitting in a nice safe environment condemning
something you do not have a clue about.
You can take your misguided, misinformed idiot rhetoric somewhere else.
Clueless, brain-dead idiots like you should not be allowed access to
newsgroups.
Get a life. Get some real information. Get informed.
Until then, STFU.
The saddest part is that you are sucking up oxygen that could otherwise be
used to support intelligent life.
Bobby
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