Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>65,000 dead at home, 3,000 dead in Iraq, and yet not one celebrity will go to a rally but the likes of Jane Fonda show up for the war protest. I just don't get it.<<<


65,000 homicides out of a population of 300,000,000 since the war started is the price we pay for running the country the way people want it run per the votes they cast in local and national elections. 3,000 dead in Iraq out of 140,000 is the price we paid for eliminating Saddam Hussein's fictitious WMD arsenal that we were told threatened the future of america.

Actually, that number was probably closer to 1,000 by the time everyone agreed there never were any WMD. So another 2,000 have died since then and Bush says the death count will just keep ticking "until the Iraqis stand up".

By the way, if you want less homicides in the homeland, here are your models to aspire to. Only 4 countries on earth are worse than us so a good selection to pick from.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur-crime-murders