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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (682318)	5/15/2005 11:49:56 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 769667

Rock_nj: Kind of like the overstated threat posed by terrorists in our modern era Brian: About as inaccurate a statement as one could ever make. Actually, your chances of dying of a rare terrorist incident is very far down on the list of preventable causes of death. Very very far down. 1,000 people or so per year worldwide die in terrorist incidents. We've lost 1,600 Americans in Iraq over the past 2 years. If we really wanted to allocate our resources to save American citizens from preventable causes of death, terrorism is not the highest priority, making our streets and cities safer would save a lot more lives every year. But, there is no pressing desire to fix these problems, terrorism scares people, because it has the potential to be catostrophic (i.e. nuclear), so that is where we fight preventable causes of death. I agree, the war on terror is worth fighting as a nuclear detonation in the U.S. would be a human and financial calamity of incredible proportions. But, that potential has been with us since the dawn of the nuclear age. If we really want to save our citizens lives, there's a lot of non-terrorist oriented things we could do to make the U.S. a far safer place to live.