The War in Iraq

[Blairgowrie]

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in

Iraq, here is a sobering statistic.

There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater

of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,867 deaths.

That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 persons

for the same period. That means that you are about 25% more likely to

be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.

[Highlander]

Good point, but can we leave a few people behind?

[Blairgowrie]

George Bush dies and goes down below and meets the Devil who says.

"You're on my list but I have no room for you. But you definitely

have to stay here, so I'm going to have to let some-one else go. I've got

three folks here who weren't quite as bad as you. I'll let one of

them go, so you can take their place. I'll even let you decide who

leaves."

George thought that sounded pretty good considering the

circumstances,

so he agreed.

The devil opened the first room.

In it was Richard Nixon and a large pool of hot water. He kept divingin

and climbing out, over and over. Such was his fate in Hell.

"No!" George said. "I don't think so. I'm not a good swimmer and don't

think I could stay in hot water all day."

The devil led him to the next room.

In it was Tony Blair with a sledge hammer and a room full of rocks.

All

he did was swing the hammer, time after time.

'No!" I've got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant

agony if all I could do was break rocks all day" commented George.

The devil opened a third door.

In it, George saw Bill Clinton lying on the floor with his arms

staked over his head and his legs staked in a spread-eagle pose. Bent over

him was Monica Lewinsky, doing what she does best.

George Bush looked at this in disbelief for a while and finally said,

"Yeah, I can handle this."

The devil smiled and said, "Ok, Monica, you're free to go!"

[Highlander]

Good one bg.. LOL

[Enforcer57]

heh heh, yeah, good one. the main difference between washington and bagdahd is that most of the victims in washington are unarmed. The monica jab is hilarious. It would be worse if he wound up in a room with hillary and was told he would be there for all eternity. True hell. Ask Bill.

btw, anyone besides me notice from these enemy videos that all the choppers getting shot down are at medium altitudes which are perfect for manpads (shoulder missles)? Like, has the lesson book from Vietnam (and everywhere else) been thrown away, or what? You NEVER fly choppers at med to high altitudes in a combat area like that. And these guys have few if any heavy AA guns like 23mm to shoot them at low level. I marveled at that when i saw the vid of the CH46 getting hit by the missle from behind. sorta like us flying over a fleet of enemy ships at low altitude in this sim. You just know whats gonna happen.

[GreyKnight]

And these guys have few if any heavy AA guns like 23mm to shoot them at low level.

You don't really need 23mm guns to bring down choppers at low level. Any volume of small calibre fire, aimed towards the tail, is likely to bring it down.

Or like in the movies, just shoot an RPG up the backside of a moving helicopter.

[DoubleTap]

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in

Iraq, here is a sobering statistic.

There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater

of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,867 deaths.

That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 persons

for the same period. That means that you are about 25% more likely to

be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.

[sged]

LMAO