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To: pissant

The article's assertion is false. According to the Strategy Page web site, the 2006 Iraqi death toll was 11 times the U.S. murder rate and two-thirds of the American death toll (per capita) in the worst year of World War II, 1944. Go to:

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iraq/articles/20070103.aspx


34 posted on 01/03/2007 7:11:22 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: Man of the Right

He is comparing the Iraq to large cities, not the US as a whole. So his point stands.


37 posted on 01/03/2007 7:14:04 PM PST by pissant
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To: Man of the Right
The article's assertion is false. According to the Strategy Page web site, the 2006 Iraqi death toll was 11 times the U.S. murder rate and two-thirds of the American death toll (per capita) in the worst year of World War II, 1944.

Do you mind? We're trying to skew statistics, here. It's a nice way to unwind after a long day of pointing out how the MSM plays with numbers for propaganda value. ;-)

49 posted on 01/03/2007 7:23:04 PM PST by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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