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Originally posted by dd74
I heard on the news today the death toll in N.O. so far this month has surpassed the death toll for U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Sure, it's a young January, but nonetheless a strange statistic.
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The population of the combat troops in Iraq is no more than 28,000, 135,000 adding in the support troops; the population of New Orleans is over 484,000 within the city limits, 1.2 million in the metropolitan statistical area.