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Originally posted by Honclfibr
Wow, if California has the same number of residents as Iraq, and more californians die each year in car crashes than Americans are killed in Iraq, this must mean that driving a car is more dangerous than being a soldier!
Oh, wait. Except, of those 26 Million Iraqi residents, only 170k are US soldiers. So It's 4000 car crashes out of 35 million for California, 2000 soldier deaths out of 170k for Iraq. Makes you wonder why they never mentioned the number of soldies deployed to Iraq in the article, but instead mentioned the total popluation of Iraq, an irrelevant number when talking about the number of American soldiers lost. 
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. |
Additionally, I pay federal taxes, so I care what happens to the citizens of California. I do not like having my tax dollars spent (or the lives of soldiers who are paid to protect me) on trying to create a democracy in a nation of religious zealots who all want to kill each other no matter what we do, so this is kind of a crappy comparison.