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To: tcrlaf

Simply do the math.

4.5 years is 1642 days.

35% of Iraqis would be 8,750,000

8,750,000/1642 would be 532 Iraqis killed every day for the last 4.5 years.

OBVIOUSLY that is a lie.


15 posted on 09/26/2007 8:22:51 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
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To: MNJohnnie
35% of Iraqis would be 8,750,000

8,750,000/1642 would be 532 Iraqis killed every day for the last 4.5 years

The article didn't state 35% were killed. The article said 35% were "dead, maimed or refugees". The number of refugees alone could be more than 4 million.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/UNHCR/3600c843dbc8bc1408ddae9d73dd8cf2.htm

I have not seen numbers for the Iraqis maimed but it is clear that a significant number of Iraqis are maimed for each one that dies in terrorist attacks.

Whether the 35% is correct is impossible to know accurately, but the number could be close to this range.

18 posted on 09/26/2007 9:04:53 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: tcrlaf
Correction. My math was off in the original post

Simply do the math.

4.5 years is 1642 days.

35% of Iraqis would be 8,750,000

8,750,000/1642 would be 5328 Iraqis killed, maimed or made a refugee EVERY day for the last 4.5 years. OBVIOUSLY that is a lie.

22 posted on 09/26/2007 9:34:12 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
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