>> We can hope, as you point out, that we kill them but the
>> last estimate from the Pew Global studies was that there
>> was over a billion available, probably terrorists in this
>> decade. That's a lot.

> Now how exactly does someone come up with a number for
> "potential available terrorists"???

Oh that's easy... it's the same way you estimate population
percentages by race in a geographic location... You take a random
sampling (in this case prisoners in Iraq), you figure out how many of
them are terrrists and what percentage of your random sampling they
represent, you assume that random sampling is representative of the
larger population (in this case the world) and then multiply the
percentage against the estimated total population... So since 1 in 6
Iraqi prisoners are terrorists, 1/6th of the world's population must
be terrorists. Seems perfectly logical to me.

I'm being sarcastic of course...

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