"The Numbers got out"
Heard about this story today when listening to Rush and checked the New York Sun for the article and to get some of the numbers...
http://www.nysun.com/article/32787For some time many of the Democrats have been sure to bring up the casualties of the Iraq war whenever they can but how does the casualty rates of the cities they represent and other countries compare?
According to the Sun article the violent death rate per 100,000 in Iraq is
25.71Compared to other countries the rate in Columbia is
61.7 per 100,000...
South Africa rate is
49.6Jamaica is
32.4Venezuela comes in at
31.6 violent deaths per 100,000
Now for some of the rates in our own country...
New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina was
53.1 per 100,000
The nations capitol Washington D.C. comes in at
45.9Just up the road in Baltimore it is
37.7Head down South to Atlanta and you find the rate is
34.9 per 100,000
And all of these compare to Iraq where the violent death rate
25.71 per 100,000
and that includes the war casualties...
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Update: This topic and News report that appeared in the New York Sun resulted in a extended debate about what numbers were used to get the different rates. One of this blogs visitors provided a link to a Wall Street Journal article that also discussed this issue. It is at
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008392 and is a very good article on this subject and the way information is viewed. See article "How does Iraq Rate?"
