Elonka wrote:
] Thrynn writes:
]
] Ok. I haven't talked about Iraq in a while so here's some
] interesting data to chew on:
]
] Murder numbers:
]
] ] [Chicago] ended 2002 with 646 murders, second to Los
] ] Angeles, which had 653. New York was third with 580.
]
] According to: http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
]
] The total number of U.S. soldier fatalities stands at 512.
] This is 11 months of data.
]
] 512 killed in a WAR, compared to a 643 in L.A.
]
] Just some food for thought.

Wow, what a bizarre and meaningless comparison.

This statistic looks quite a bit different when it is expressed as [number of deaths] / [number of people in the sample group].

RE: Deaths in Iraq., vs Deaths in Los Angeles