Jim Macklin wrote:
It is safer to a soldier in Iraq than a citizen in
Washington, DC [if the email I got the other day is
correct].

It's a total fabrication and completely wrong.

We've had about 1000 deaths per year over about
160,000 troops in Iraq. DC runs about 260 murders
over 600,000 citizens per year. Even if you throw
in auto fatalites, it doesn't get much over 300.