Over 61 thousand people have been murdered in the US since “Operation Iraqi Freedom” began.
You think its dangerous to be a US Soldier in Iraq? Consider this, the average number of US citizens murdered per year from 2002 to 2005 was 16149.25. Source: disastercenter.com
The United States Crime Index Rates Per 100,000 Inhabitants went from 1,887.2 in 1960 to 5,897.8 in 1991. By 1991 the crime rate was 313% the 1960 crime rate. In 1996 your risk of being a victim of a crime in the United States was 5.079%, and of a violent crime 0.634%.
Many murder victims were gang related. There are violent gangs in every major city in the US and innocent people are getting killed. Children are being shot while playing in their neighborhoods.
Now lets look at Iraq. Iraq has many war zone neigborhoods. But the death of American troops in IRAQ is less than 1000 per year. That’s just 6% of the murder rate in our us war zone neigborhoods. That means overall the US is more dangerous to American sons and daughters than IRAQ.
Funny how over the same time period (March 2003 to January 2007)* the murder of an estimated 61,905 American citizens gets overlooked, yet we see a regular news media ‘death count’ of our brave men and women we call to defend our nation. God Bless those 3000 troops and their families!
Domestic War Plan
Where’s the plan to defend our children at home in our neighborhood war zones? Where is the plan against gang violence and murder in the US? (headscratch)
*Source: warcronicle.com- March 19, 2003—Cruise-missile and bomb salvos hit Baghdad an hour after the deadline passes. Operation Iraqi Freedom begins.
Good points. It really makes you question the motives of those who constantly portray the war in Iraq in such negative light.