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August 27, 2003
Faux News Update: Iraq less dangerous than California
California Roughly Same Size As Iraq:
Two hundred and seventy seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that, statistically speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California--which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate California has more than 2,300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means they are incurring about 1.7, including illness and accidents, each day.
Ooh. Fuzzy math. I mean, for Chrissake, you could look at Alaska's land area and murder rate and say that Iraq is more dangerous than Alaska. Okay, so here's the population vs death rate calculation:
150,000 Americans in Iraq, 40,000,000 Americans in California. That works out to a .42% annual death rate for Americans in Iraq, .00575% death rate for Americans in California, or 73 times the number. Yeah, I'd rather be in California than Iraq, thank you very much!
Posted by glyphic at August 27, 2003 02:14 PM