Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the  U.S. involvement in Iraq , here's a sobering statistic. There has been a monthly average of 160,000  troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during  the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths. That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers per month.

The firearm death rate  in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 persons for the  same period. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.