The Real Terrorist RISK to Americans from Al Qaeda in 2009

These are the facts you will not get from the corporate owned media.  The risk of being killed by a terrorist for most Americans is so small it can’t be measured.  Well it can – it is = (4,000/300,000,000/8 years).  Send me your answers – Americans are terrible in math and many think they are at risk right now of being killed by Ben Laden or one of his millions of Al Qaeda members.  Many so called Christian TV shows continue to scare their watchers by saying Al Qaeda will take over the world and force all Christian to become Moslems if we don’t fight wars in all Moslem countries. (The answer = 0.00000176)

Risk from Al Qaeda:

4,000 Americans were killed by terrorist attacks on 9/11/01 (about 500 per year over the last 8 years)

100,000 Americans killed by medical mistakes in hospitals each year (800,000 over the last 8 years)

30,000 Americans are killed by hand gun death each year (240,000 over the last 8 years)

17,000 Americans are killed each year by drunk drivers (136,000 over the last 8 years)

7,000 Americans die by drowning each year (65,000 over the last 8 years)

Conclusions:

Americans are 300 times more likely to die in a hospital from a medical mistake, from a hand gun, a drunk driver, or by drowning than by terrorist attack.

In fact if you live anywhere but New York City and DC your risk is even smaller.  No one has died in 46 states from terrorist attack and the risk there is zero.

Those telling you to be afraid are lying to you so they can fund the military spending we don’t really need and can’t really afford.  They are the usual suspects, Senators McCain, McConnell, Graham, DeMint and the Republican right wing nut-jobs.  They practice government by fear and lies.

Mark 10:19 

19"You know the commandments, DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS (lie), Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.”

Facts about Al Qaeda:

Total number of Al Qaeda members worldwide unknown, estimated at about 5,000 in a world populations of 6,700,000,000.

Total number of countries controlled by Al Qaeda = none

Total number of countries where Al Qaeda operates in the open = none

Total number of governments that openly supports Al Qaeda = none

Total number of military equipment of Al Qaeda, planes = none, tanks = none, ships = none, satellites = none, drone aircraft = none, and so on and so forth

Total number of Al Qaeda living in the open – none they are all in hiding and being hunted as I write this blog.

Total number of Al Qaeda attacks in America in the last 8 years = none

Given the above why are we in Iraq and Afghanistan?  Those two wars have cost us almost $1 trillion dollars and are scheduled to cost another $500 billion over the next 8 years. 

What would happen if we pulled out of those two third world countries?  The first thing is no Americans would be killed in those two countries.  The second is we would save about $500 billion over 8 years that could be used for things we need here in America. 

Would Al Qaeda take over Iraq?  No chance of that happening.  Would Al Qaeda take over Afghanistan – no, but the Taliban might come back and take over.  Would the Taliban let Al Qaeda set-up training bases as they did in the past?  Maybe, no one knows the answer to this question for sure.  If they did would we know about it and could we take them out with air power – yes.

So the risk to America from Al Qaeda is extremely small and our risk says small even if we leave both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Please tell you elected representative to stop the lies and start telling us the truth.

Please email your elected representatives and tell them what you think.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm