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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (517275)12/30/2003 12:30:57 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Re: "MIRACLE OF BAGHDAD"

>>> Pretty funny!!!! (Hardly on the order of the miracle of the loaves and fishes!)

"Startling new Army statistics show that strife-torn Baghdad - considered the most dangerous city in the world - now has a lower murder rate than New York. The newest numbers, released by the Army's 1st Infantry Division, reveal that over the past three months, murders and other crimes in Baghdad are decreasing dramatically and that in the month of October, there were fewer murders per capita there than the Big Apple, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C."

>>> A good example of the selective use of statistics to 'prove' whatever you want to 'prove'.

>>> One useful thing to note is that the crime rate is still significantly higher than it was BEFORE the invasion. (Not at all unexpected, because totalitarian societies often have low rates for street crime....)
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