i think the point is that WE made it a warzone for reasons not important enough for many of us.

7/11/2006 2:40:43 PM

Population:
New York - about 8 million
L.A - about 3.8 million
Chicago - about 2.8
Philly - about 1.4
Detroit - about 0.9 million
D.C. - about 0.5 million

Total: 17.4 million

Murders over that 3 year period 2,846 x 3 = about 8500
You have about 0.05 of 1% chance of getting killed as a citizen in any given city you mentioned.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there are 150,000 troops in Iraq of which 2,539 were killed.
You have about a 1.7% chance of getting killed as a troop in Iraq.

Take that for what you will, but I'll just say this. Where would you feel safer taking your next vacation... NYC or Iraq? When 300,000 people die in those 6 cities over a three year period (from the numbers above) people will probably start to leave. I see what point you are trying to make but I think that comparing troop casualties to civilian murders is really a matter of apples and oranges.

7/11/2006 2:56:37 PM

there's more people than ^ total in Bombay alone...just an fyi

7/11/2006 3:14:29 PM

Murders in everywhere but Iraq: millions!
Soldiers killed in Iraq: 2.5k

Why does Iraq even make the evening news!?

We need to either pull out of Earth or pull in to Iraq. It's so safe in Iraq when one ignores simple reasoning!

7/11/2006 3:28:40 PM

^beat me to it (on the "we should leave earth" angle)

7/11/2006 4:23:10 PM

stephen hawkings supports boonedocks...can't argue with that.

7/11/2006 5:10:06 PM

Quote :

"It would have been a good post, if anyone in this thread had said something about US deaths and pulling out, but no one did. It was pretty much a straw-man post"

Yeah nobody is arguing that we should pull out of Iraq. Post that shit in a thread where thats being discussed and at least your comparison (as stupid as it is) will be in the proper place.

7/12/2006 11:49:15 PM

Maybe synapse is right that we shouldn't be discussing pulling out of Iraq in this thread, but since it's been brought up. . . . Why is it that the Bush-bashers and general antiwar pot-bangers can't get the leaders of the opposition party--the Democrats--to support pulling out of Iraq? It’s because most of the Democrats in Congress obviously do not have the courage of their convictions.

A resolution was brought to the floor of the House on June 16, 2006, and 42 Democrats voted to stay in Iraq. Doh!

Maybe you objectors should try the Green Party. Good luck with that!

7/13/2006 3:24:28 AM

wow. ^39 and you still can't form a logical argument?

7/13/2006 4:06:36 AM

Quote :

" Maybe synapse is right that we shouldn't be discussing pulling out of Iraq in this thread, but since it's been brought up I can't stop keep bringing it up. . . . Why is it that "

Are you that dense, or are you trolling? IT wasn't randomly brought up...you brought it up. Nobody in this thread is advocating pulling out of Iraq...that would be pretty stupid imo.

Quote :

"Stay On-Topic - Try to stick with the topic. If you have something important to say that doesn't relate to the topic, then start a new topic. If you have something useless to say, keep it to yourself. "

If you want to continue down this road, do it here:
http://brentroad.com/message_posttopic.aspx?section=4

7/13/2006 9:46:29 AM