[Bogey78O]

The author is wrong about all this priviledged crap stuff.

Vietnam war:

Raw stats:
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/vietnam_war_casualty_lists/statistics.html

Crunched numbers:
http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html

Iraq war:
http://www.dior.whs.mil/mmid/casualty/OIF-Deaths-After.pdf

I couldn't find crunched stats on it.

Vietnam mirrored America.

[haroldeveryman]

To make Congresman Rangle happy, the death percentages for the Vietnam and Gulf wars by Race are as follows:


Vietnam; White-86%, Black-12.5%, American Indian-0.4%, Asian (mongolian+Malayan)-).6%, Unknown-0.4%

Gulf War: White-72.4% Hispanic-9.3%, Black-13.9%,AmIndian 0.7%, Asian 1.9%, Native Hawiian-1.2%, Unknown-0.7%

The apples vs oranges part is with the Hispanics who weren't classified as such during the Vietnam war. If they had called them "white" in the Gulf war statistics, then the percent white killed during the gulf war would be 86%, the same as in the Vietnam war. Most likely, Hispanics who did not obviously have black ancestry black were classified as white during the Vietnam war.The percentage of Blacks are 1.4% higher for the gulf war than in Vietnam.

Not enough difference to bring back the miserable draft it seems to me.

[haroldeveryman]

To make Congresman Rangle happy, the death percentages for the Vietnam and Gulf wars by Race are as follows:


Vietnam; White-86%, Black-12.5%, American Indian-0.4%, Asian (mongolian+Malayan)-).6%, Unknown-0.4%

Gulf War: White-72.4% Hispanic-9.3%, Black-13.9%,AmIndian 0.7%, Asian 1.9%, Native Hawiian-1.2%, Unknown-0.7%

The apples vs oranges part is with the Hispanics who weren't classified as such during the Vietnam war. If they had called them "white" in the Gulf war statistics, then the percent white killed during the gulf war would be 86%, the same as in the Vietnam war. Most likely, Hispanics who did not obviously have black ancestry black were classified as white during the Vietnam war.The percentage of Blacks are 1.4% higher for the gulf war than in Vietnam.

Not enough difference to bring back the miserable draft it seems to me.