Posted on 01/01/2007 6:16:22 PM PST by Nexus
"The United Nations has said as many as 100 Iraqis die violently each day, which translates into 36,500 deaths annually"
"As many as", is very deceptive. This could be correct with one a day or 100 a day.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004902.html
Congratulations to New Orleans. In 2003 they were 57.7.
In the case of Baltimore, yes, absolutely yes.
That is lower than I expected and FAR lower than what the MSM and libs want to make us believe. They claim that on average 100 Iraqis die daily... that would be 36,500 deaths in 2006.
Thats more than twice the actual number.
BTW I want to note that the Ministry of Health, and therefore morgues and hospitals, is headed by Sadrists. Their stated goal is a withdrawal of US forces. What better way to achieve this, than to inflate numbers and play into the hands of the left and media. Not saying, this is nescessairly that way, and likely those numbers are true, but who knows for sure?
That is the fundamental truth of this issue.
There has been considerable fabrication of body counts from the first day of the invasion and the media pretends not to notice.
Great point.
The math looks good to me.
(Actually, I came up with 56.489742 per 100K)
What are we missing tomcorn?
The city of "Balimer" truly is a quagmire in that it sucks the life blood out of the rest of the state.
And since it is "The City that Breeds", we are assured a continuous supply of RAT infestation for the foreseeable future.
The mayor has promised to do to the rest of the state what he did to Balimer and I have no doubt he will do so.
In 2004, the media, UN and the anti-war left claimed that over 1/2 million Iraqis have died because of the US invasion. This figure was played down, down, down and now they want us to go awwww thinking that the death count is too high.
Yet the 800,000 murdered in Darfur in the last three years gets a honorable mention from George Looney.
ditto on the math - unless he's stuck on that age old 'lancet' lie of 100,000 dead...
His name is a typo. It was supposed to be davidcorn.
total population in Millions/ reported deaths/10 =deaths per 100,000
When you do the calculation you will see your error.
sure davidcorn
100,000? That's the lancet lie for 2004. According to the latest lancet lie it was 600,000 dead.
Maybe we have a secret vaporizer which turns Iraqis into air?
My feeling is that they're throwing in garden variety murders along with deaths from terrorist attacks. I wonder what the death rate would have been without the murders.
If you take out the police and soldiers, using the 14,298 civilians stated above, the rate is 49.6 per 100,000.
Are you *really* a mathprof?
Do you mean this David Corn?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Corn
Yes.
Is tomcorn David Corn?
Yes, that's who I mean. tomcorn joined FR on 12/27/06.
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