{"id":2252,"date":"2006-09-02T11:02:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/update-911-iraq-parity-day\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T16:02:21","slug":"update-911-iraq-parity-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/update-911-iraq-parity-day\/","title":{"rendered":"update:  911 iraq parity day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i was curious,  so a quick update on<a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/place_your_bets_911_iraq_parity_day.html\"> 911 iraq parity day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>9\/11 casualties:  2976<br \/>\niraq casualties:  <a href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\/oif\/\" class=\"broken_link\">2642<\/a><\/p>\n<p>just 334 to go!  with an average run rate of 2.04 ( 491 \/ 243 ) american deaths\/day so far in 2006, that puts 911 iraq parity day just 163 days from now, which is&#8230;. 2\/12\/2007.  did you place your bets yet?<\/p>\n<p>someone&#8217;s still counting dead iraqis too&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.net\/\">41041<\/a>, or approaching 14 dead iraqis for each dead american on 9\/11.  <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/08\/21\/bush-on-911\/\" class=\"broken_link\">not that there&#8217;s any connection<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>for yet another perspective on body counts, let&#8217;s look at percentages:  41041 \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/iz.html\" class=\"broken_link\">26,783,383<\/a> = .153% of their population.  .153% of our population (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/us.html\" class=\"broken_link\">298,444,215<\/a>) is 456.619 dead americans.  that is pretty close to the annual death toll from tobacco in america (442,398 according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/MMWR\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm5114a2.htm\">CDC<\/a>), or the entire population of the des moines, iowa or chattanooga, tennessee metro area (take your pick).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was curious, so a quick update on 911 iraq parity day. 9\/11 casualties: 2976 iraq casualties: 2642 just 334 to go! with an average run rate of 2.04 ( 491 \/ 243 ) american deaths\/day so far in 2006, that puts 911 iraq parity day just 163 days from now, which is&#8230;. 2\/12\/2007. did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}