Posted by Rick Merrill on 05/31/06 22:36

RS wrote:

> Bob wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> Thats kinda stupid, compare city to nation....
>
> Guy sits behind a fence that has one board missing. Every day, on the
> other side an elephant walks by. But the guy only sees a trunk, then a
> body then a tail. After about a week he has a revelation. Aha! The trunk
> causes the tail!!!

Are you licensed to metaphor!-?

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