pinions of buddy don: use the multiplyer!

thays a grate site name of Informed Comment writ by a feller name of juan cole, who he's a perfesser of histry at the university of michigan. ifn i find my rountuit i plan to putt the lank on my sidebar.

innywho, i gut a lil thang frum him that i caint hep but thank bout now n agin, witch he pointed out how thays moren ten amurkins fer ever iraqi. n that means that ifn ye wonta unnerstan how it mite feel ifn that war wuz takin out amurkins at the same rate tiz takin out iraqis, then y wood half to multiply.

here how twood wurk. furst ye git yer amurkin n iraqi populayshuns here:

• #5 worlwide – United States: 295,734,134 (July 2005 est)
• #46 worlwide – Iraq: 26,074,906 (July 2005 est.)

nex ye git yer multiplyer by dividin the united states populayshun by the iraqi populayshun:

295,734,134/26,074,906 = 11.34

turns out thays 11.34 amurkins fer ever iraqi.

now to make sense of them stories that cum out mos everday bout iraqis gittin killt, ye gut to use yer multiplyer n round up the result since ye caint half a person be half killt. heres sum eggzamples:

At Least 23 Bodies Found Dumped in Baghdad

* 11.34 =

At Least 261 Bodies Found Dumped in Washington

heres one frum tuther day:

Senior Iraqi General Killed in Ambush
At Least 20 Die, 50 Hurt in Renewed Violence

* 11.34 =

12 Senior United States Generals Killed in Ambush
At Least 227 Die, 567 Hurt in Renewed Violence

heres a nuther way ye mite half to doot:

Civilians Bearing Brunt of Iraq Violence

By ROBERT H. REID
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 2, 2006; 9:16 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgency-related violence last year killed more than twice as many Iraqi civilians – 4,024 people – as Iraqi soldiers and police, according to government figures obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

* 11.34 =

Civilians Bearing Brunt of United States Violence

[...]

WASHINGTON, United States -- Insurgency-related violence last year killed more than twice as many American civilians – 456,321 people, nearly half a million – as American soldiers and police, according to government figures obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

i reckun ye gut the idee.

so hows it a'goin accordin to them thats runnin the war?

• Rumsfeld Says Iraq Not In Civil War:

  Rumsfeld, speaking at a Pentagon briefing today, said Iraqi leaders would not allow the country to plunge into civil war.
  
  "[Iraqi leaders] have to be fully aware that if this does not work, they and all of the people who have supported them lose everything, if this turned into a civil war, and they can't want that," Rumsfeld said. "They want just the opposite and they've demonstrated the courage to show that they want just the opposite."
  
  Hundreds [* 11.34 = Thousands] of people were killed in sectarian violence sparked by the February 22 bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra [* 11.34 = a major protestant megachurch in San Diego].

• General [Pace]: Iraq's Not on Verge of Civil War:

  Asked how things are going, Pace said: "I'd say they're going well. I wouldn't put a great big smiley face on it, but I'd say they're going well."

them two needs to start a'usin that multiplyer to check tharself!

ifn ye wonta unnerstand how the news mite feel to ye ifn ye wuz iraqi, use the multiplyer!