--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > US 'suburbs more violent than Iraq' > > > > By Jonathon Moran > > > > November 07, 2006 02:32pm > > Article from: AAP > > > > > > > > MORE fighting goes on in parts of suburban US than Iraq, according to > > Australian filmmaker George Gittoes who has just finished a > > documentary set in a Miami "war zone". > > > This guy obviously wants to have his message heard, hence the > spectacular sound bite, though the stats don't add up: > > USA has a population around 300M with approx. 17K murders per year > according to FBI. > Iraq has 27M population with approx. 25K murders per year based on > [low] estimates of Iraqi deaths during the US occupation war. > > Shows that Iraq is about 15 times more violent than the USA. > > > So Iraq is > Thats fine. But what you say is not what he said. Read it a bit more carefully.
He said "MORE fighting goes on in parts of suburban US than Iraq" -- Specifically in Miami. His case is that parts of Miami are more violent than Iraq. Not some place in podunk mid america. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
