<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by MaXaM
Detroit population in 2000: 951,270
Number of murders in Detroit in January: 35 (0.000036792%)
Number of troops in Iraq in January: 130,000
Number of casualties in Iraq in January: 47 (0.000361538%)
You are 9.827 times more likely to be killed in Iraq than in Detroit<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Heh. Nice.
10x isn't that bad, statistically, when you look at the fact Iraq is a war zone.
On the flip-side, each US Soldier killed in Iraq is a trained professional. They know how to handle the environment, where those killed in, say, Detroit, are untrained and unaware of the particular danger. Plus, most of these soldiers are in well-protected areas, so the statistics are much worse than they appear.
Kal.
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