[Tolik]

Good find. Thanks.

As much as we can wish for a therapeutic war, it just does not exist.

War should be avoided. But when we get to it, there is no substitute for decisive actions and convincing victory.

Selective reporting is as old as journalism itself. If EVERY death on the highways was counted on EVERY news network, we'd stop driving.

Here is CIA's statistics. They maybe wanting in covert intelligence, but they are superb in the general data collection: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2066rank.html

The death rate of population in USA 2003 est about 8 per 1000 people. Data from the table you posted varies at the level of 0.5 to 0.66 death per 1000 military personnel.

Yes, I know, the comparing of total population to the healthiest group is not quite right, still we talking about the high risk occupation.

[optimistically_conservative]

There are stats for "military age" groups available here and here.

My point remains that Clinton hands are not bloodless, and the left was not only unbothered by the loss of military life under Clinton - but so uninterested that their memory is no one died under Clinton's watch.