--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [I wrote:] > > > This is huge. > > Just a comment, however, about "huge." While I loathe > the people who would do such a thing as much as anyone > else here, it's good to keep some perspective. Forty > people killed by terrorist bombs strikes Westerners as > shocking, but the *average* number of civilians killed > by such terrorists in Iraq during the last 18 months > is 20 per day. > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- > dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060201098.html > > It's only "huge" because it happened to us for a change.
Duh. For even more "perspective," three times that many people die in traffic accidents in the U.S. every day. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
