Found in todays email

[Amelia]

Gotta love the logic.

If you consider that there have 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. 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

In God We Trust

[Ron Lambert]

Well, if I lived in Washington D.C., I would certainly move out of the city ASAP.

[Bravus]

I think their math is wrong and it's something like 720 per 100,000 in Iraq... (because it's per year, not per month) And apparently the Washington rate is closer to 36 than 80. So you're actually about 20 times more likely to be killed in Iraq. Oh well, it was a nice theory...

[Jeannieb43]

Thanks, Bravus, for making that calculation. It takes a math wizard to dispute some of the propaganda that's being circulated.

[Dr. Shane]

The other factor they are not taking into consideration is Iraqi deaths in Iraq. They are only looking the number of Americans killed.

[Amelia]

See, I wouldn't have ever known that since math is just not something I'm good at.

[Dr. Shane]

My wife grew up in a war-torn country - El Salvador. The war lasted some 12 years. It started when she was about 9 and ended when she was about 21. She grew up seeing deadmen in the street and on the sidewalk. It was common for her to see them on her way to and from school. Tanks patrolled the streets all the time. Her home was often shaken by exploding bombs. Individuals found without their national id were assumed to be mercenaries and were killed on the spot (no judge or jury). So in our household, we do not take war lightly. There is a great contrast between our nation's capital and Iraq's war-torn areas.

Those that support the war, like my wife and I, ought not try to diminish the sacrifices made. These sacrifices should harden our resolve. For every soldier that dies in Iraq we have one more reason that we must win. These are not needless deaths. People killed as a result of drunk drivers are needless deaths. The lives sacrificed in Iraq are for the freedom of those people and the protection of the free world. Freedom is not free as it requires the ultimate price.

[lazarus]

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For every soldier that dies in Iraq we have one more reason that we must win.

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I guess this is off topic but what would winning in iraq look like?

[Nan]

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I guess this is off topic but what would winning in iraq look like?

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Also off topic, but how can anyone ever claim victory in Iraq, after all the carnage, civilian and military, national and foreign. When the leaders of the foreign troops finally decide enough is enough, and pull them out - whether or not they claim victory - does any one seriously believe the civilian carnage will cease?