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Old 18-07-2006, 12:25 AM
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Default Washington vs. Iraq - Funny Factual Comment
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If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S.Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should immediately pull out of Washington.
I was tossing up whether to post this here, or in the funny thread... cause whilst factual, its also quite amusing to say the least.
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