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Musing - I wonder if the 9-11 victims would feel avenged.

By the deaths of so many other innocent people, killed in their name.

I doubt it.

And I can't help but think that if they were Christian, they would loathe the idea of one innocent person being killed as were they.

Arf

FUN IRAQI DEATH FACTS

[From figures as of July, 2003]

Total Deaths in Iraq War: 10,800

Innocent civilians killed in Iraq war: ~6,000

Children: ~2442
Based on population demographics from the CIA World Factbook:

Age structure, Iraq:

0-14 years: 40.7% (male 5,103,669; female 4,946,443)
15-64 years: 56.3% (male 7,033,268; female 6,855,644)
65 years and over: 3% (male 348,790; female 395,499) (2003 est.)
Innocent civilians killed on 9/11: ~2,998

Children: ~10

Number of words in the Jan. 2003 State of the Union Address: 5,492

Deaths per word: 1.97

Deaths per the "16 words": 675

Deaths per point for the 9 point jump in George Bush's poll numbers resulting from the war: 1200

Profits on each death for the $600 million Haliburton reconstruction contract: $55,000

Number of hours George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle and Karl Rove served in combat (combined): 0

Next time you watch Commander Bunnypants above and his self-satisfied smirk, don't forget to ponder The Kid Factor.

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