Did you hear Rush yesterday or the day before? When he did a little riff on violent death rates in Iraq compared to other countries and U.S. cities? It was very funny and sad too. In Iraq is was about 23.5 deaths per 100 thousand. In pre-Katrina New Orleans it was something like 59 per 100K. Even DC was 35 or 45. Columbia was very high and so was South Africa. All substantially higher than Iraq and it included insurgent, civilian and military deaths. Iraq is far safer than Jamaica based on the death rate.
Excellent point. Too bad the MSM will never report it....Unless a Democrat held the White House.
We lose 700 people a year here just to deer and auto collisions.
The average US death rate per 100,000 is 845 per year. With over a 100,000 troops you would have many deaths, even if you didn't have an enemy.