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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
According to the FBI stats, there were about 16,000 murders in the US in 2003. How many people do you think have died in Iraq since the war started? Do you think it's less than 50,000?
And do you ignore that the US has about 12 times as many people?
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I do think it's less than 50,000, but that's still irrelevant. The point was where things are today, not over the last 2.5 years. How many people are dying in Iraq a month these days? 100? 200? 300? Let's say 300. That's 3,600 a year. I would guess that the murder rates in America's top 10 cities exceed that, but even if they don't, it's in the ball park. And we live in a country that is not fighting an insurgency (at least not violently) and has a stable democracy. We can even forget about the US as a whole. What's the annual murder rate in CA? Between LA and Oakland alone, it's probably between 700-800. Whole state, say 1200-1500.
Just trying to put things in perspective.
ETA: CA murders in 2002: 1842
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/04/2...rnia.crime.ap/
