How do you figure. If we take the number of Americans killed in Iraq,
during the conflict it maks up 1806 people. Or the VAST majority of
the 1993 coilition troops killed. Of the total number of Americans
killed, 1395 are due to hostile action. Not accidents, not suacides,
not natural causes. That's over 77%. That statistic is for the time
period 3/03 through 7/05 or 28 months. That gives us an average of
over 49 Americans killed every month in Iraq due to hostile action.
Over the period of a year that works out to an average of over 588
Americans killed due to hostile action. As compared to 262 Murders
that took place in DC in 2002. Ok, lets do murder rate. There were
at a minimun 100,000 American service men and women in Iraq and a
maximum of 140,000. That gives us a MINIMUM rate of death due to
hostile action of 420 per 100,000. By comparison DC in 2002 had about
600,000 residence for a murder rate of less than 44 per 100,000 That
means the rate in Iraq is 10 time higher than the rate in DC, AND THAT
IS JUST FOR AMERICANS. No one seems to care enought to keep stats for
Iraq citizens killed.
On 8/2/05, Larry Vaughan <lvaughan@pldi.net> wrote:
> That's pretty emphatic, for comparing one years murders stats, 2002 even, to
> all coalition forces killed in Iraq since the beginning.
>
> The military forces are all voluntary. You know ahead of time you might have
> to wage war and have a good chance of being killed. People join anyway.
> Probably not very many left wing radicals.
>
> The fact is more people were murdered in DC than American forces were killed
> in Iraq.
>
> Probably more Spitfires stolen too!
>
> Larry
> USMC 1967 to 1971
> 1973 Spifire
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Innis" <jdinnis@gmail.com>
> To: <BearTranserv@aol.com>
> Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Little Bavarian Car?
>
>
> > Bullshit! DC had 262 murders in 2002 (the most resent year I could
> > find stats for). So far over 1900 cooalition serveice men and women
> > killed in Iraq.
> >
> > On 8/2/05, BearTranserv@aol.com <BearTranserv@aol.com> wrote:
> > > In a message dated 8/2/2005 2:31:36 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> > > frede.thomas2@verizon.net writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > I've seen the argument that more murders were committed in DC during the
> > > time we have been in Iraq, than we have lost in soldiers...so we should
> pull out
> > > of DC before we pull out of Iraq!
> > >
> > >
> > > Robert B. Houston
> >
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> > = Never offend people with style when you =
> > = can offend with substance --- Sam Brown =
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