--- 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.








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