Good News from Iraq
Always one to believe that the chalice is half full rather than half empty, WorldNetDaily is accentuating the positive in the number of deaths of coalition forces in Iraq.
In 2004, 905 coalition troops, "chiefly Americans and Brits," lost their lives in Iraq. You nattering nabobs of negativism out there will no doubt fret that that's a tragically high number of unnecessary deaths.
Not so, says WorldNetDaily, not when you compare it to the 2,394 people murdered in California in that same year. The WorldNetDaily Exclusive, headlined "California homicides dwarf Iraq deaths," leads with a statistical trump card:
Recently released crime statistics show the homicide rate in California is 265 percent higher than the death rate suffered by U.S. and British military personnel in Iraq.
There are 265 percent fewer deaths of coalition soldiers in Iraq than homicides in sunny, civilized California? There you are — the war in Iraq's not going so badly after all.
But let's take a "chalice is half empty" approach instead, and say that 905 deaths is still 905 deaths too many. And of course, 2,394 deaths is far too many. So why not take all the coalition forces out of Iraq, where they will no longer die, and put them in California, where they can reduce the horrific number of homicides?
Ok, so I'm being facetious (at least about the second part). But that's not nearly as great a sin as WorldNetDaily's using two sets of completely unrelated statistics in an attempt to minimize the significance of the deaths of thousands of young men and women in an unjust war.
