Iraq: The Data You Should Know
Gateway Pundit has compiled some incredible numbers that directly contradict the media and the anti-war left's accounts of our failures in Iraq. What really caught my eye was the comparison between Iraq and American cities in regards to civilian violent deaths.
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Appearing with Westwood One radio host Monica Crowley on Saturday, King said that the incessantly negative coverage of the Iraq war prompted him to research the actual death numbers. "I began to ask myself the question, if you were a civilian in Iraq, how could you tolerate that level of violence," he said. "What really is the level of violence?" Using Pentagon statistics cross-checked with independent research, King said he came up with an annualized Iraqi civilian death rate of 27.51 per 100,000. While that number sounds high - astonishingly, the Iowa Republican discovered that it's significantly lower than a number of major American cities, including the nation's capital. "It's 45 violent deaths per 100,000 in Washington, D.C.," King told Crowley. Other American cities with higher violent civilian death rates than Iraq include: Detroit - 41.8 per 100,000 Baltimore - 37.7 per 100,000 |
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/so-how-bad-are-things-in-iraq-really.html
Also take a look at Power Line's comments on these stats.