[Triple Word Score]

I would like to see statistics on how many servicemen and women would have died if they were home on leave instead of in Iraq.

I'm willing to bet it's statistically safer to be serving your country in Iraq than home on the interstate.

If we had done a survey of Americans right after 9/11 and asked them how many American military personnel would die in the war to come, to avenge the WTC and the Pentagon, I bet no one would have DREAMED the number would be as LOW as 500 by this point...or that we would have successfully captured Saddam Hussein, killed his lousy sons, and most probably killed Osama Bin Laden (he's certainly been ineffective since we took Afghanistan away from the Taliban, even if he isn't dead.)

500 servicemen and women dead...but we have made tremendous gains getting there!

And if the economy isn't Barbie's Dream Economy, I do not see the street full of starving children with bloated bellies. We don't have any idea how freaking GOOD we have it.

[bootless]

Re: servicemen and women dying while home on leave.

Anyone know the homicide count for Detroit or Chicago (both Dem cities) for 2003? I'll bet it was higher than 500.

Traffic accidents? Way higher than 500.

[OldFriend]

Sadly, three US military personnel die every day in service related accidents.

[luvbach1]

The "progressives" predicted thousands of American dead in Iraq and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead. Are they pleased that their dire predictions (wishes?) did not come to pass? No, now they wail at the far fewer deaths and the great unwashed take up the call.That's not to minimize the individual tragedies represented by the the well over 500 US dead; just trying to introduce some badly needed perspective.

[Frank_2001]

Good points!