Natch...

Another eight young men slaughtered on the streets of Iraq. Of course, one of the arguments, the right is so fond of, is that about the same amount of young people die on the streets of America on any given day. It's a blood curdlingly gruesome and false comparison and always neglects their whole-hearted 2nd Amendment protectionism that promotes the very gun culture that leads to the plethora of violent crimes in our society but that is an argument for another day.

Now, let's look at civilian deaths over the last six years in Iraq, the low end calculation for civilian deaths, the one this administration haplessly utilizes to hide the horrors thrust upon that nation by our occupation, is 160,000 which represents around 1% of the Iraqi population, 1% of the US population is around 3.15 million, divided over six years that would amount to 500,000 violent deaths a year.

Now, let's take the high number which is touted by that august publication the Lancet, a publication by the way that all previous administrations relied upon to report the atrocities of other nations conflicts but this one cannot bring itself to sanction, calculates a possible civilian death toll of 1.2 million or 5% of the Iraqi population. That would equate to 15.75 million violent crimes over the same six year period or 2.62 million deaths a year in the US.

The streets of America are absolutely nothing like the streets of Iraq... period.