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Originally posted by Spanky
I notice this today when reading the newspaper:
Red-light running has long vexed traffic officials. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, more than 900 people were killed and 176,000 injured in the United States because of red-light runners in 2003.
I also noticed that 16,000 people were murdered last year. The lowest amount since 1965.
Yet the entire country is focused on the deaths in Iraq. Considering we live in a country of almost thirty million people, the amount of deaths in Iraq are really minimal.
Of course every death is a tragedy, but political policy has to deal with numbers.
The fact that we conqured Iraq and have occupied it for so long with an insurgency, two thousand deaths is so low it is almost a miracle.
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Extrapolating some of that data, in the same time period as the war in Iraq, there has probably been as many red-light deaths in America as there have been battlefield deaths in Iraq, but the difference is the larger potential benefits of the red-light running deaths is nil, while the deaths in Iraq are contributing to a burgeoning democracy in the ME, the first of its kind in an Arab ME country.
The problem is the red-light running deaths are probably largely the underrepresented in America. The people the dims do not care to make an issue. Perhaps poor and minority. While these deaths might logically reduce the voter base on teh dimwit plantation, death is not a bar to voting D (see Cook County, IL for example). Thus there is no cheap partisan political hay to make over these deaths, while the deaths in the ME can be falsely spun in an attempt to treasonously degrade the CinC's leadership of our nations's successsful War on Terror. See below:
