The next time Taliban Jack...

...starts screaming about all the senseless Canadian deaths in Afghanistan, try to remember that in 2004... the same number of people were killed in traffic accidents every 11 days... as have died fighting in this conflict... since 2001.

And I sure don't hear anyone talking about banning automobiles.

Yet.

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POSTSCRIPT: According to Statistics Canada...

...there were 594 homicides in Canada in 2007. That's 50 times the average number of yearly Canadian combat fatalities in Af'stan the last 7 years.

Small comfort to family and friends of our brave troopers... but an interesting relative view of the barrage of socialist hysteria that erupts every time someone is killed.

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