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To: KyrosL who wrote (50208)	2/23/2008 10:38:08 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542041

I wish we had invaded Detroit instead of Iraq. We might have made things a bit nicer at home.

To: KyrosL who wrote (50208)	2/23/2008 10:39:54 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542041

Just to keep things in perspective, Basra's murder rate is less than Detroit's. Good point but I doubt the murder rate for women deemed infidels is quite so high. ;-)

To: KyrosL who wrote (50208)	2/23/2008 5:07:29 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542041

>>Just to keep things in perspective, Basra's murder rate is less than Detroit's.<< KyrosL - Why choose Detroit? Detroit has a higher murder rate than any other American city except Baltimore, right? en.wikipedia.org (The list at the link above is sorted by murder rate, from highest to lowest.) Does this mean that Basra's murder rate is higher than that of every city but two in the US? If so, that's not really very good. Basra is supposed to be a city where the fighting is over, and the locals are in charge of law enforcement. Basra's population is almost all Shiite, so ethnic tensions aren't at play there. One other point. As I learned in Physics 101 (which I am taking online for free), a measurement is useless unless you know the margin of error. It's entirely possible that the record keeping is better in Detroit (and Baltimore), and that that accounts for a lot of the difference. For all we know, the murder rate in Basra is actually higher. - Allen