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How about America the country vs Iraq the country for a more fair evaluation?

That's a good point, if your aim is to conduct a fair evaluation. But when you're already comparing apples and oranges, why not compare a bucket of one versus a truckload of another.

64 posted on 01/03/2007 7:32:50 PM PST by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")

When the war started, Iraq was compared to California in size and population. In 2000, California murdered 2019 or so of it's citizens. It took 3 years to reach 2000 soldiers lost in Iraq. I don't know if there is an accurate count of Iraqi's lost. I don't think putting a 500 pounder in the wedding party of Al Quida should count as Iraqi citizens lost however. If you ignore the last 6 months or so, the murder rate hasn't been that bad in Iraq. The last few months have been horrific. In the early days, an IED would take out 2-5, but now they seem to get 20-50 at a time.