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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (96743)	4/27/2007 12:26:04 PM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"The Iraqi civil war is every bit as bad as the US Civil War per capita." Having trouble with your math again, Clifford?

To: American Spirit who wrote (96743)	4/27/2007 1:33:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

The Iraqi civil war is every bit as bad as the US Civil War per capita. 187 dead in Iraq in one day is the equivalent of 5000 dead in the US in one day. Obviously you're trying to compare Iraq's population now (about 26M) to ours now (about 300M) in order to maximize the bloodshed in Iraq. There are two problems: 1) the ratio between Iraq's and the US's current populations isn't close to what you claim above. 2) The US population during the Civil War was only about 5M above Iraq's current population (in 1860, the US population was about 27M free citizens plus 4M slaves). So you should compare Iraq's current population to the US population DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, not to the current US population. If you can't understand simple mathematical relationships, then I think I'm justified in concluding you're the ignorant, intellectually lazy dropout you seem to be.