""firearm death ratio", 'firearm' being the operative word. "
Who cares? They're still dead. And it's FAR more than 100 troops.
Blzbba wrote:
'""firearm death ratio", 'firearm' being the operative word. "
Who cares? They're still dead. And it's FAR more than 100 troops'
What he fails to recognize would be that the statistic with which this thread is concerned is the firearm death ratio, specifically, as opposed to the death ratio.
In this war the media has developed several ways to reflect poorly on the military and this administration by utilising fallacious and deceptive statistics on friendly casualties. Just take this sentence from CNN's Decoration Day Coverage:
(Since then over 500 US Troops have died in Combat in Iraq. Not all of these deaths have occured in combat.)
Come again. Not all combat deaths occur in combat ?
This is one such method of bad science used by a less than objecvtive media with an agenda to push.
Please don't buy into it.
Blzbba's response 'who cares' is indicative of the ignorance with which the citizenry of this great nation is currently infected. For this reason, many have unfortunately bought in to the false casualty numbers from the GWOT, which include vehicle wrecks, accidental discharges, friendly fire, heart disease, heat related illness, Kreutz-Feld-Jakob Disease and cancer.
"Firearms deaths" also would exclude such things as improvised explosive devices, poisonings, suicide bombings, bludgeoning, land mines and the good old fashioned cutting off of the head ( which we must presume is merciful and politically correct compared to putting underwear on someone's head; according to the biased reporting of this media ) which are classifiable as KIA, but not from firearms.
We must, in resepecting the sacrifices of all our servicemen and servicewomen, as conscientious citizens demand objectivity from our media and at the very least we must demand the differentiation between the personnel killed in action and those who die from these non combat ilnesses and accidents.
The media is currently playing fast and loose with the truth and walking all over the Flag and the good people of this country, not to mention our military and veterans, by using these lies to advance their Communist agendae and 'blame America first' mentality.
But in the words of Blzbba: "who cares"