[xrp]

A SENIOR US senator today called for the United States to withdraw from Iraq in the wake of a recent surge in violence and mounting military casualties there.

Why don't these guys ever call for the withdrawl from most major American cities in light of the civilian casualties there?

City	Population	2001	2002	% change	2002 as of
New York	8,008,278	643	536	-16.6%	Dec. 8
Los Angeles	3,694,820	587	627	6.8%	Dec. 7
Chicago	2,896,016	666	600	-9.9%	Dec. 8
Houston	1,953,631	267	242	-9.4%	Dec. 8
Philadelphia	1,517,550	309	274	-11.3%	Dec. 10
Phoenix	1,321,045	207	197	-4.8%	Oct. 31
San Diego	1,223,400	51	38	-25.5%	Oct. 31
Dallas	1,188,580	240	171	-28.8%	Dec. 10
San Antonio	1,144,646	100	87	-13%	Oct. 30
Detroit	951,270	395	403	2.0%	Dec. 10
San Jose, Calif.	894,943	22	25	13.6%	Nov. 30
Indianapolis	791,926	112	110	-1.8%	Nov. 25
San Francisco	776,733	64	67	4.7%	Dec. 6
Jacksonville	735,617	75	82	9.3%	Nov. 30
Columbus, Ohio	711,470	81	76	-6.2%	Dec. 11
Austin	656,562	28	24	-14.3%	Nov. 30
Baltimore	651,154	256	241	-5.9%	Dec. 10
Memphis	650,100	158	157	-0.6%	Dec. 10
Washington	572,059	233	246	5.6%	Dec. 11
Miami	362,470	66	60	-9.1%	Nov. 30

[TomasUSMC]

These numbers are no good for your argument.
New York has 8 million people and 600 died in one year.
We have 120,000 troops in Iraq and have lost 600 dead.

NY would have had to lose 36,000 people to crime in one year to equal what our troops are losing, proportionally.