,here is a sobering statistic.there has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months and a total of2,112 deaths.that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.the firearm death rate in washington D.C. is80.6 per 100.000 persons for the same period.that means that you are about 25%more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital
2007-03-06 20:42:41 · 4 answers · asked by fatdadslim 6 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Thailand
And the US citizens are clamoring to bring their soldiers home from Iraq? Interesting. Are they planning to save their servicemen from being killed by foreign forces? But rather do it themselves?
2007-03-08 05:40:21 · answer #1 · answered by peanutz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess Iraqi deaths don't count for anything in your statistic, by conservative estimates that would increase the death rate in Iraq by well over 1000%. Instead of trying to show a positive note to the war, I think it more than shows what a sad state our cities are in. What are trying to say, that it's safer to be in Iraq? I would think you could come up with better justification for the war than trying to perpetrate a meaningless and skewed statistic such as the one you're plastering all over this forum. I'm sure if you seriously believe Iraq is a safer place to be, there is plenty of real estate available to you there.
2007-03-07 07:28:36 · answer #2 · answered by Gerald J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I support the policing going on in Iraq (NOTE: it is NOT a war - the US and allies are the police trying to keep two armed groups from killing too many people of the other side), statistics like this really aren't very useful. Yes, if you only count US deaths, it is riskier in DC than Baghdad, but Iraq is a far more dangerous place than anywhere in the US due to the availability of explosives and irrational hatred among religious groups. which have killed thousands of Iraqis (NOTE: not by the US, but by other Iraqis).
I spent a year in the Former Yugoslavia trying to keep Serbs from killing Croats and Bosnians; to keep Croats from killing Serbs and Bosnians; to keep Bosnians from killing Serbs and Croats; etc. Iraq has the same ignorant and illogical divisiveness.
2007-03-08 03:05:39 · answer #3 · answered by Rick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not get the statistic for the death rate in Bangkok? by the way this is a Thailand q&a.
2007-03-07 20:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋