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To: fight_truth_decay
"And this is, and then his evidence was there are about 6.6 homicides a day in California and we're losing only 1.7 soldiers a day in Iraq. Now what he's forgetting is there are 34 million people living in California and there are one point, and there are 140,000, so you're actually 60 times more likely to die if you're a soldier in Iraq.

Franken's point here is not refuted by this article.
19 posted on 09/26/2003 1:59:14 PM PDT by Egregious Philbin
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To: Egregious Philbin
Looks like some fuzzy math.
22 posted on 09/26/2003 2:05:12 PM PDT by Huck
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To: Egregious Philbin
Franken's only point is to politicize the death of American fighting men.
25 posted on 09/26/2003 2:24:02 PM PDT by muawiyah
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