7/26/03, Rush Limbaugh on The Rush Limbaugh Show

"Folks, we're getting a daily death update out of Iraq, and we're hearing slogans like, "One a day," and "Our troops are being slaughtered," from the Democrats, as their willing accomplices in the press try to concoct this notion that the casualty rate over there is outrageous and intolerable. The following statistics come from the Centers for Disease Control website: On a daily basis, on average, 10 Americans die by drowning, and nine Americans die by fire in their homes. 14 Americans die by pedestrian accidents. 27 Americans die in falls. On average, 50 Americans a day are murdered. 118 die in auto accidents, and 25 people die from A.I.D.S. every day, on average. Yesterday, two Americans died in battle in Iraq."

8/26/03, Brit Hume on Fox News:

"Two hundred seventy-seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that statistically speaking U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California, which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate California has more than 2300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means they're incurring about 1.7 deaths, including illness and accidents each day."

9//12/03, TIA does his right wing fuzzy math homework and discovers that Bush and the ChickenHawks are indeed on the very front lines.


                            annual    area       murders per   murders per   Hume/Limbaugh
Site    population murders (sq mi) 100 sq.mi.    1000 people    Danger Rating

DC    572059       239         68          3502             0.4                   Iwo Jima
MD    5296486    430         12407    35                0.1                   Bull Run 3
RI      1048319      45          1545       29                0.0                   Biggest Little Slaughterhouse in the Union
CA    33871648   2079       63707    13                0.1                   I am Looging fuhr Sarah Connor
DE      783600      25          2489       10                0.0                   Yeah, but there's no income tax
Iraq*   140000      282         168754   2                   2.0                   A Walk in the Park
AK      626932      27          656425   0                   0.0                  Your Momma's Bosom

* represents numbers for US troops (+/-)