{"id":21577,"date":"2003-07-21T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:20:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:20:14","slug":"put_iraq_casualties_in_proper_perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2003\/07\/21\/put_iraq_casualties_in_proper_perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Iraq Casualties In Proper Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/put_iraq_casualties_in_proper_perspective.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright\"\/>The following statistics come from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\">Centers for Disease Control<\/a> website: On a daily basis, on average, 10 Americans die by drowning, and nine Americans die by fire in their homes. 14 Americans die by pedestrian accidents. 27 Americans die in falls. On average, 50 Americans a day are murdered. 118 die in auto accidents, and 25 people die from A.I.D.S. every day, on average. Yesterday, two Americans died in battle in Iraq. <\/line><BR\/>We are at war. The war isn\u2019t over, but it\u2019s time that somebody put some of this in perspective. The loss of a single member of the military is one too many, and what I\u2019m saying here is not intended to minimize the losses that we\u2019ve suffered, nor is it an attempt to defend Bush or our policy. What I want to do here is simply analyze the reporting and politicizing. There is a lack of perspective and proportion in the reporting of the casualties over there, and all you have to do to expose it, is examine some facts.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/><strong>Rush\u2019s Brilliance Continues&#8230;<\/strong><\/line><BR\/>&amp;lt;a href=&#8221;\/home\/eibessential.guest.html&#8221;>(&#8230;in the Essential Stack of Stuff)&amp;lt;\/a><\/line><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/en\/download\/default.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/put_iraq_casualties_in_proper_perspective.Par.0005.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following statistics come from the Centers for Disease Control website: On a daily basis, on average, 10 Americans die by drowning, and nine Americans die by fire in their homes. 14 Americans die by pedestrian accidents. 27 Americans die in falls. On average, 50 Americans a day are murdered. 118 die in auto accidents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Put Iraq Casualties In Proper Perspective - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2003\/07\/21\/put_iraq_casualties_in_proper_perspective\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Put Iraq Casualties In Proper Perspective - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The following statistics come from the Centers for Disease Control website: On a daily basis, on average, 10 Americans die by drowning, and nine Americans die by fire in their homes. 14 Americans die by pedestrian accidents. 27 Americans die in falls. 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