Some interesting facts I stumbled across. Apparently there is a huge crime epidemic in Chicago... one that is so bad, that we might say we have an insurgency in the city. I say this because there has been more murders in Chicago's war zone, greater then our casualties in Iraq this year.
So far this year we have lost 266 soldiers in Iraq. While every soldiers life is precious, and valuable, this number is surprisingly low for a country that supposedly is rife with conflict and terrorism. Over this same time in Chicago, we have lost 291 people to murder. This is staggering, seeing that Chicago is a much smaller area, and has a much smaller population then Iraq does.
Some of the surprising things about how our media treats the war in Iraq, is that we actually have seen a decrease in soldier deaths since we went to Iraq. Our accidental death rate in training exercises actually tended to be higher then our casualty rate in Iraq. Yet... it was made a huge deal.
Does our media not remember World War 2, where we lost tens of thousands of soldiers each year... sometimes even more? And it was rarely reported in tallies of the dead. Iraq has been a war with few casualties for us. Surprisingly low for an area that is supposedly filled with people bent on killing our soldiers.
The two sites I quote my numbers from are linked below... just so you can check my facts.
http://chicagoist.com/2008/08/07/chicagos_murder_rate_up.php
http://icasualties.org/oif/
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