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Originally posted by Spanky
I can't believe you went there. More Americans were killed that month in Detroit than in all of Iraq where this terrible insurgency that is completely out of hand is supposed to exist. And that is just one city of 2 million - not even the size of baghdad - compared to the entire nation of Iraq.
Are gang related killings considered combat? If that is the case I am sure there are more combat killings in the United States everyday than there are in Iraq.
In the first four hours of D-Day there were three thousand deaths.
In the 1980s New York city averaged three deaths a day. I am sure there were more killings every day in the United States in the 1980s than there are in Iraq everyday now.
Iraq has twenty five million people. I don't think that even one percent of the population has died in this war. And yet everyone makes it sound like it is a complete blood bath.
Of course every death is a tragedy. But if everyone that was murdered every day in the United States pictures was put on the news this country would seem like it was totally out of hand and a blood bath. Can you imagine what it would be like if every night on the news if every victim of a violent crime's picture was put on the news? The news would not be long enough.
I think there around ten thousand highway deaths every year the United States. Can you imagine every picture being put on the news.
If you put the numbers in perspective you realize that Iraq is far from being an out of control or being a quagmire.
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Oh, and don't forget heart disease, cancer and old age. When you compare Iraq to those, its nothing. A blip. Not even an event worth noting.
