posted on December 2, 2005 08:57:41 AM new
California homicides dwarf Iraq deaths
State lost 2,394 to murder in 2004 compared to 905 coalition lives
Posted: December 2, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Recently released crime statistics show the homicide rate in California is 265 percent higher than the death rate suffered by U.S. and British military personnel in Iraq.
According to the report "Crime in California 2004," compiled by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, there were 2,394 reported homicides in the Golden State last year. That compares with 905 deaths of coalition forces in Iraq, chiefly Americans and Brits, during the same time period.
A monthly average of 75 deaths of American and British forces has remained fairly constant over the last two years.
The peak for homicides in California was in 1993, when there were 4,095 reported.
Such comparisons have been made by defenders of the action in Iraq, who say the number of casualties for a war of this length are extraordinarily low.
Opponents of the war claim the lives of the 2,000 Americans who have died since the initial invasion have been lost in vain.
Opined Toula Foscolos in the French Le Magazine: "More than 2,000 Americans have left their lives [in Iraq], thanks to the conniving and self-serving ways of their dim-witted president."
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(Dont you just love those sniveling defeatist French. The same ones that took 2 weeks to stop one riot).
"Dear Lord, if you can't make me a better man, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am.".
[ edited by Bear1949 on Dec 2, 2005 09:00 AM ]
posted on December 2, 2005 09:11:09 AM new
Hahaha! ROFLMAO!!!
Oh you neocons are REALLY desperate!!!
Ok, we'll keep the war going until we reach the murder rate in California...hahahaheeooo! Can barely type this is TOO funny!
WHAT AN IDIOT!
BUT it IS the "BEST" reason for war in Iraq!! HEHEEE! Whooooo!LMAO!
HEY! How many lives were lost in the tsunami....let's keep going until we reach THAT number!
Hey, how many people were killed in car accidents in 2004...let's keep going until we hit THAT number!
WOW! What a good plan...and the ONLY one I've heard from the right.
Ya, bear tell THAT to the parents, husbands, wives and children of those slaughtered and maimed in Iraq...I'm sure they'll feel better.
posted on December 2, 2005 10:31:05 AM new
How do you base your counts on 160,000, those people are rotating daily?
The major difference some here are missing is that California is supposedly not a war zone, so where is the outrage for those deaths there?
Ron
"Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not."
posted on December 2, 2005 10:36:08 AM new
What, people don't rotate in and out of California daily? Not saying there is no outrage, but being born and raised in Detroit, I guess I'm just not impressed.
posted on December 2, 2005 12:00:23 PM new
lol - piinthesky - leave it to you.
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Yes, they don't like hearing that traffic accidents across American take 40,000 lives a year either and just like the murder rate in CA....or most big cities for that matter, they don't advance the cause of freedom for anyone.
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"Where are the John F. Kennedy Democrats who supported his 1961 Inaugural promise that America would 'pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty?"
"Where are the old-time Democrats who believed as JFK believed that the cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." ---A Patriot (http://FederalistPatriot.US/subscribe/)
"Most of those "old-time Democrats" are now Republicans." Kennedy also said, "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country."
Today, the Democrat Party's foundation rests on what the country can do for its constituents.
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"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on December 2, 2005 01:50:41 PM new
I've been looking through one of those throw-away catalogs....and came across a couple of pages of sayings on T-shirts. Thought I might lighten the mood with some humor.
posted on December 2, 2005 01:55:25 PM new
Linda, that is too much truth and justice for the RT. You're not supposed to admit youve been reading them somewhere!!! You're supposed flit through these threads feeling pretty witty and wise all of your own!! ...and of course pitying anybody who isnt you tonight!
posted on December 2, 2005 01:57:28 PM new
HA! Gee, linda, I'm so glad you feel the need to defend your clothes to me but then you've proved to be such a liar that the old "catalog" excuse just doesn't cut it.
Now, before you say you don't care what I think, remember YOU had to defend your clothes with an explanation
Let me know when you can quit getting your best ideas off T-shirts and want to discuss the issue
posted on December 2, 2005 02:53:37 PM newI'm too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt So sexy it hurts I'm too sexy for my car too sexy for my car Too sexy by far And I'm too sexy for my hat Too sexy for my hat what do you think about that
posted on December 2, 2005 03:23:28 PM new
lol, dbl, I only wish. That's one thing I miss a lot....getting totally blitzed on occasion....and having a cup of coffee with some Irish cream in it. [yum, yum]
And one can easily see that having a disturbed person [mg/cf/lb] following me around all day....obsessing on my every word...would drive anyone to drink. But so far, I'm abstaining.
