Re: Iraq Less Violent than Washington, D.C.


What a blatant load of ***. This just shows how desperate the blind Bush
cult has become.

These numbers are comparing a NATIONAL death rate with CITY death rates.

Why hasn't a national death rate for the US been cited? Huh? Why?

For that matter what hasn't the death rate for Baghdad been cited, and
compared to ANY America city? Huh? It's probably closer to 45 per 100,000,
PER DAY, NOT YEAR....






"Bob" <spam@xxxxxxx> 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.


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