Posted by Chris on 11/16/90 11:49

when is this thread going to die, thats wot i wanna know..........totally
irrelevant to the group, s*d off
"Erik Kusta" <eriktax@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Why doesn't Iraq illegally invade Washington DC and help us out like Bush
> did to their country??
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> "Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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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>> --
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>> "Democracy is a form of religion, it is
>> the worship of jackals by jackasses."
>> --H.L.Mencken
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