Are you tired of hearing the war mongers say that more people are murdered in __________ (fill in the name of any US city here) than the number of US soldiers who are dying in Iraq?
Well I looked into this and in 2003, Chicago was the US murder capital. 600 homicides. Number of soldiers killed in Iraq in 2003: 574
http://icasualties.org/oif/Remember that 574 died in only 9 months. (War started in March)
So Chicago had an average of 50 per month and our soldiers died at an average rate of 63 per month in 2003.
As of the 4 year anniversary of the war last month, we were averaging nearly 70 dead soldiers a month in Iraq.
If you expand the numbers out and get a per capita rate, New Orleans is in the lead now with a rate of 96 murders for 100,000 people. How many troops are in Iraq? More than 96 per 100,000 are dying every year.
http://blog.nola.com/csnola/2007/03/nola_pulls_further_ahead_as_mu.htmlAnyway, I could do all the math here but I hope you get the point. Mathematically, our troops in Iraq are at far greater risk of death than they would be in any city in the US.