fable and Mangle

[mapleleaf4ever]

Since you guys are ever so concerned about casualties in Iraq.

Here's a little Food for thought that was e-mailed to me earlier...


If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should immediately pull out of Washington.

Have a nice day! :)

[Revolver]

oh shit..here we go.

[mapleleaf4ever]

I know! I'm in a feisty mood today! :D

[Jonny Dubbs]

^
I don’t know how else to respond. That’s the most ridiculous analogy I’ve ever heard. I sincerely hope your comment was in jest.

[wishbone]

hahaha

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by mapleleaf4ever

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed

not me. i make a point of not pissing off people with guns.

[Mangle]

Originally Posted by mapleleaf4ever

If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.

Whoever emailed you is a retard, and a tool of half-truth logic. There have been US 2112 soldier deaths, but around 40,000 Iraqi civilian deaths in that time. They're the ones usually being shot and bombed by those weapons, though most of those 2112 were friendly fire.
His math is also just plain wrong. How do you get 60 per 100,000 from 2112 per 160,000? There has been an average of 160,000 troops for 22 months...so he did the math to mean that there have been 160,000 different troops in Iraq every month. Most of those troops have been there for two years with the same gun, moron. Gotta love that Conservative math.
I do agree, however, that the marshmallow center of the chocolate city of Washington should go back to Texas.
Nice try.

The civilian death toll has risen inexorably for the entire duration of the US-led military presence in Iraq following the initial invasion. That is the grim reality uncovered by ongoing tracking of media reports by the Iraq Body Count project (IBC).
Figures released by IBC today, updated by statistics for the year 2005 from the main Baghdad morgue, show that the total number of civilians reported killed has risen year-on-year since May 1st 2003 (the date that President Bush announced "major combat operations have ended"):

• 6,331 from 1st May 2003 to the first anniversary of the invasion, 19th March 2004 (324 days: Year 1)
• 11,312 from 20th March 2004 to 19th March 2005 (365 days: Year 2)
• 12,617 from 20th March 2005 to 1st March 2006 (346 days: Year 3).

In terms of average violent deaths per day this represents:

• 20 per day in Year 1
• 31 per day in Year 2 and
• 36 per day in Year 3.

[decypher]

What this asserts is that the US has rampent social and class disparity contention of it's own. This proves that going into Iraq was a much broader operation than expected and applied further strain on an America that was already in bad shape. Throw in the imcompentent Donald Rumsfeld with no backup plan to quell insurgancy or looting and you have a quagmire.

To quote one of many generals who called for Rumsfelds resignation: the plans for Iraq were implemented by people who have never ordered an operation such as this or had to "bury the results."

When you find cleavage between the institutions of rhetoric and the actual people on the ground in Iraq, you know you have a problem.

Power politics is an archaic ideology; time for change.

[mapleleaf4ever]

heh heh it worked! it worked!

[r a m a z e]

interesting

[fable]

Originally Posted by mapleleaf4ever

Since you guys are ever so concerned about casualties in Iraq.

Here's a little Food for thought that was e-mailed to me earlier...


If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should immediately pull out of Washington.

Have a nice day! :)

Stick to becoming a robot with the Canadian military mate. Point/Shoot/Kill would seem more your style then logic or context.

(im in a feisty mood too, jackass :))