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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. |
Ok the first quote speaks about the Iraqis under Saddam (Hang fucker) not about when American Soldiers were there.
The second quote compares American deaths in California (ie MVC) to American deaths in Iraq (via "WAR")
Hope that clears it up.
My whole point is that taken in perspective and if reported correctly the war is not going as bad as the media makes it out.
Hell we lost more Americans to ONE DAY of terrorism than in the WHOLE war!
With all due respect and honor to those who have perished.