Originally Posted by Rosina823

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Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S.
involvement in Iraq, here's a sobering statistic. There has
been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq
theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a
total of 2,112 deaths. That gives a firearm death rate
of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per
100,000 persons for the same period. That means that
you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in
the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.