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To: Alighieri who wrote (288222)	5/16/2006 10:29:14 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1573807

The deaths raised to at least 2,443 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died since the war began in 2003, according to a count by The Associated Press. 2,443 in three years? So if we assume there are ~140,000 US troops in Iraq at any given time the odds of dying in Iraq are 814/140,000 = ~0.58% per year. The United States gets on average 30,000 car crash related deaths a year (out of a 300 million population). en.wikipedia.org If we assume 60% of the US population drives a car you get 30,000/180,000,000 = 0.17% chance of dying while driving a car in the US. So being stationed in Iraq is ~3x more life threatening than driving to work in the US. Put that way, Iraq doesn't seem that dangerous. You wouldn't know it from the media - in the news it seems the reports on the dangers of a posting in Iraq are on air (in print) more than 3x the ratio of the reports on the dangers of driving to work. You say "they" are trying to distract you from "the war" - It seems to me "they" are not not educating you as to the dangers of driving, and giving you plenty of info about Iraq.