If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in

[darrels joy]

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in
> the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total
of
> 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
>
> The rate in Washington D.C. (among others) is 80.6 per 100,000. That
> means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our
> Nation's Capitol (which has some of the strictest gun control laws in
the
> nation) than you are in Iraq.
>
> Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington D.C.

[catman]

I hear ya and concur!


Trav

[rotorwash]

DC is administered by a committee from the Peanut Gallery (Congress). I purpose we immediately invade and institute a regime change, installing a government more responsive to the needs of the people (like keeping them safe), not just the wants of the whiners.

Invade Congress? Count me in!!! Where's my weedwhacker?

[Bill Farnie]

I?m sorry everybody and this isn?t an attack on anyone here on the PF but I can?t stand this crap of comparing the ratio of the deaths in Iraq to anything else. Whoever started this statistical BS, and there are many, such as ?you?re more likely to be killed in an auto accident then in Baghdad? are just sick and uncaring A-Holes. I would love for those who make this crap up to go ahead and say it to the face of someone who lost a loved one in Iraq.

Amen Bill. I hope the insanity ends soon, and our armed forces come home. Until then they have my unfledging support.