US deaths in Iraq...

[SUBMAN1]

Latest thought for the day. Hahahaha! This is a couple months old however.

-S

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112

deaths, that gives a monthly firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The same firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the

nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington."

[Type941]

Sorry, flawed logic. You forgot to include into the Iraq fatalities the civilian population, car bombs and firearms victims.

Also somewhat old, but according to UN official figures, 3709 Iraqies died in Iraw in October this year (next biggest deatg tikk 3590 in July). So apparently about 119 local civilians are killed every day there. In October, US also lost 100 men in Iraq. I think even if we assumer your calculation is accurate (which it's not) then you can add a eleventeen more to that. I mean 2000-3000 people die a month? Sorry, you have to go a long way to convince the 'free' and 'democratic' Iraq is a safe heaven. I know you made a bit of joke of the post, but count how many people were murdered there, and really, your US casualty list is nothing compared to what people in Iraq suffered. I don't know how many people Hussein is going to hanged for, but I think it's 300 in one place. Put that into perspective. I hear it's above 130,000 that are dead because of the Iraq war. I think US should prepare for a genocide claim in 70 years time. I am not joking.

[tycho102]

Iran will clean that place up within 6 months. I'm totally with Murtha and Pelosi on this one. Absolutely, cut and run, redeploy, whatever. Get the hell out of South Korea, Japan, Germany, Britain, Spain, and Italy, too. That's about 190,000 women and men, total.

[blue3golf]

He wasn't counting iraqi civilians, and that 100 in a month was just that one month, the other months weren't as bad. The only thing the U.S. needs to prepare for in 70 yrs. is to kick some more ass.

[Takeda Shingen]

Oh, this is going to go well.

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[PeriscopeDepth]

Oh, this is going to go well.

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Come on now, Takeda. What could possibly go wrong with this thread....

PD

[kiwi_2005]

Well speaking of Iraqi ive been holed up in the bunker finishing this book called "Saddam The Secret Life" by Con Coughlin. Got to the bit about Saddams Torture chambers. His regime had perfected 107 different methods of torturing its enemies. Wont go into detail at what tortures were carried out to grusome :o . told by survivors permandantly scarred, there weren't many survivors. What a maniac of course you all knew, yet reading the biography is more convincing - Saddam with the split personality - Bursting into tears if one of his children hurt themselves in any way. While at the same time signing a death warrant for the execution of fifty people. Once was asked a question: How would he feel if he executed the wrong man by mistake. "It is far better to kill an innocent man rather than allow a guilty man to survive" :dead:

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