Death Rate in IRaq Compared

[DKW 86 7,440]

From e-mail: Is this true?

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 rate in WashingtonD.C. is 80.6 per 100,000.That means that  you are

about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's Capital,  which

has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in

Iraq.

Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of  WashingtonD.C.

In God We Trust

[Tigermike 3,053]

There were over 100 homicides in Birmingham in 2005.

[TrueBlue72 0]

The numbers in your original email don't add up. Even if they did, comparing our US soldiers in Iraq with the general population in DC is a stretch, at best.