This is the letter I'm responding to:
DEATHS IN IRAQ
Put them in perspective
The Nov. 7 Star Tribune proclaimed in big bold type proclaims that 853 soldiers were killed in Iraq this year.
How about a headline which puts the war dead in perspective? Minnesota alone is on target for a total of 500 people to be killed in traffic accidents this year. More than 12,000 people have been murdered in the United States since January.
A total of 853 soldiers killed protecting this country from terrorist attacks doesn't seem so bad compared to the carnage that occurs every day in the United States. It is probably safer to be in Iraq that walking down a street in a major U.S. city or driving on one of our overcrowded roads. So let's not get so excited about casualties in Iraq.
HAROLD OLSON, MINNEAPOLIS
http://www.startribune.com/563/story/1540826.html My second letter, which I am a
fucking idiot for for forgetting to copy-and-paste before hitting "Submit", ran through the numbers that showed the death rate of our troops in Iraq was 683 per 100,000 people per year, while our domestic homicide rate was 5.6 per 100,000 per year. In other words, Iraq is 122 times deadlier for our fighting sons and daughters than the here is. And I recommended he turn off conservative talk and Faux News.
The first one, I feel, was perhaps too long, and it probably won't get published. You can see it here, though:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3705107&mesg_id=3705107
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