I'd vow to kill the terrorists or die trying.
Our streets were drenched in blood - and dust and debris.
We refer to it as 9/11. Everyone of those hijackers was an Islamic extremist. And actually, I'm sure that since we have been in Iraq, more Iraqis are being killed by fellow Iraqis than by our forces. We aren't the ones planting the roadside bombs or setting off car bombs and people bombs (the suicide bombers).
Brilliant, Horace. This is an excellent example of the "New Liberal Math".
Let's review:
1. Horace says 100 Iraqis die violently every day (which is a lie - more later).
2. The US has 11x (not 100x!) more people than Iraq (295 mil. vs. 26 mil.)
3. The US equivalent of this violence would be 1,100 people dying violently every day (not 10,000!)
So even if Horace's statement #1 were correct, this would translates to a violent death rate of 140 violent deaths for every 100,000 people annually.
If true, this would be an extremely high rate, though only 1/9th of what Horace's "new math" would lead you to believe.
So what is the "real" murder rate in Iraq? Horace's sources are unimpeachable; after all, "the New York Times reported" that "in recent months a hundred Iraqis die every day."
Is that really "every day", Horace? Really? Or is that maybe a few notable days? What difference does it make?
Here's the difference...
* The far-left, rabidly anti-war Iraq Body Count project puts the figure at 36 violent deaths per day which translates to 50.5 violent deaths per 100,000 population per year.
* Most more moderate, reliable sources, put the figure between 25 and 35 violent deaths year per 100,000 population per year
For comparison, Detroit's "apples-to-apples" rate is 41.8; Baltimore's is 37.7; Atlanta's is 34.9; St. Louis is 31.4 and Pre-Katrina New Orleans was 53.1.
So let's give them the benefit of the doubt andsay that the violent death rate in Iraq is really 35. That means that 9,100 people meet violent deaths in Iraq annually.
If we took Horace's article at face value, it would mean that 100 x 365 or 36,500 die every year. And of course his comparisons to US equivalents are complete nonsense.
This reminds me of my wife's dopey moonbat uncle who was apoplectic over the "250,000!!!, 250,000 of our boys - our US servicemen and women - killed in Iraq and for what?!?!"
2,500...250,000...whatever. Facts just don't matter to these people.