Iraqi Shoe-thrower has sucky math skills

Um. Really?

“I don’t know what accomplishments he was talking about. The accomplishments I could see were the more than 1 million martyrs and a sea of blood,” al-Zaidi said. “There are more than 5 million Iraqi orphans because of the occupation. … More than a million widows and more than 3 million displaced because of the occupation.”

OK, so how is this possible? I know women and children are being killed over there, because Dahr Jamail tells me so with every email missive. So, let’s assume that it is 50% men, 25% women, and 25% children, just to be illustrative. That would mean that every man killed has an average of 2 wives, by virtue of “more than a million widows.” But that can’t be right, because he says there are more than 5 million orphans, meaning both mom AND dad died. So, then 500,000 men must have died, and all 250,000 women who died were married to them. Which means there were 250,000 men who died but who’s spouse lived, which means that of those men, each had 4 wives. Oh, and of the 250,000 pairs of parents killed in this war, they averaged…..(wait for it)…..20 children.

Or, maybe the husband and wife were both killed, but that dude was also married to different women. I suppose that is possible. Well, just about anything is possible in the fantasy life this guy has concocted.

Well, either that or this guy is full of shit, and I REFUSE to believe that.

Category: Politics