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Michael Novak on Iraq & Combat Casualties on National Review Online |
 | | Since non-hostile causes are responsible for army deaths in peacetime as well as wartime, in bases at home as well as in war zones, many of the non-hostile deaths ought not to be counted as specific to Iraq, although, of course, a portion of them are. |
 | | These 343 (not 500) combat deaths, furthermore, need to be set in context. |
 | | During 2003, the number of homicides in Chicago was 599, in New York City 596, in Los Angeles 505, in Detroit 361, in Philadelphia 347, in Baltimore 271, in Houston 276, and in Washington 247. |
| www.nationalreview.com /novak/novak200402020959.asp (776 words) |
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