Sunday, October 05, 2008

McCain: Iraq Is ‘A Peaceful And Stable Country Now’

As the great Lewis Black once put it, "I'm going to repeat that. Because it bears repeating." "A Peaceful and Stable Country."

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5 comments:

  1. Any stats on how it has been there the past few months?

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  2. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties_aug08.htm

    22 US Servicemembers killed, August 2008.

    http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx

    226 Iraqi civilians killed, August 2008

    Peaceful? Stable?

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  3. Still the same for September? I was wondering if there is a downward trend.

    Let's compare a couple of places. Iraq has a little under 30 million population. California has 36 million. I chose California because I guessed it has a similar population.

    Looking at the civilian death toll in Iraq, 226 times 12 = 2712 annual death rate based on the August rate.

    So what is the annual rate for California? 2260 (murder). That's very close. Other comparisons show the Iraqi murder rate being pretty much like that of Chicago, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.

    If Iraq is not peaceful and stable, then neither are California, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia.

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  4. He said it at the end of August, so that was germane to what he said. The same probably applies to September.

    Are you seriously attempting to argue that California and Iraq are similar?

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  5. Only if they have a similar murder rate. Unless you have a better idea of a way to quantify "peaceful and stable".

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