Iraq Less Violent than Washington, D.C.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/29/132706.shtml?s=ic
Despite media coverage purporting to show that escalating violence in Iraq
has the country spiraling out of control, civilian death statistics complied
by Rep. Steve King, R-IA, indicate that Iraq actually has a lower civilian
violent death rate than Washington, D.C.
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:

a.. Detroit - 41.8 per 100,000
a.. Baltimore - 37.7 per 100,000
a.. Atlanta - 34.9 per 100,000
a.. St. Louis - 31.4 per 100,000
The American city with the highest civilian death rate was New Orleans
before Katrina - with a staggering 53.1 deaths per 100,000 - almost twice
the death rate in Iraq.
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CB
The Bush administration is, of course, preoccupied with the Middle East, and
this drives media coverage of foreign affairs. But voices are struggling to be
heard in the media about the communist danger and potential terrorist threat we
face just south of the border.

JOE McCARTHY WAS RIGHT
http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2003/13.html