3,000 brave soldiers, a tough number these days. But the conclusion of this "news" is, that everyone has to make sure they didn´t die in vain! God bless those who stand right now with their boots in the sand to defend the free and democratic Iraq!
"Where is the country my dad fought for in the Pacific?"
Swishing into a Starbucks while crying they're entitled to more consideration...
This is what's amazing. Not that I don't feel for those loved ones, and not that I want my brother or friends to be lost, but we gave 40,000 American lives to defend Korea!
It's interesting to look historically at our views on life. An ancestor of mine had 18 children by the time she was 40, but lost 5 of them. People lived so close to death--yet didn't spend every ounce of strength on trying to be "safe" as the #1 concern.
Now we live in a society that seems to value life less in many ways, yet the quest for absolutely "safe" it's almost an obsession. Perhaps this has to do with widening of the "no afterlife" view?
I'm not arguing to act unsafely...I'm just commenting that the obsession often leads us away from the best course of action...sometimes risk is required to preserve freedom, etc. Our ancestors knew this.
Another interesting point is to note that the military death rate under Carter--in peacetime--was as high as it is now, in war!
My marine son's DI lectured his battalion on graduation day.
It seems the highest mortality rate for Marines is their first weekend of leave after graduation from boot camp. Not sure if it is true but seems reasonable.
In World War Two, the U.S. suffered 405,000 military deaths in a time period of approximately 1640 days.
If, during World War Two, the U.S. news media had insisted on demoralizing the American Home Front each time a “grim milestone” of 1,000 deaths was reached, they would have had to do so EVERY FOUR DAYS.
During World War Two, the U.S. population was 44% of what it is now. In terms of deaths relative to the current population, in World War Two, the “grim milestones” now bemoaned by the liberal news media would have been reached EVERY FORTY TWO HOURS.
What can be derived from such “grim milestones” is that the American liberal news media currently conducts a media campaign to demoralize the American Home Front that, during World War Two, Josef Goebbels would not have imagined his wildest dreams.
What can be derived from such “grim milestones” is that the American liberal news media is now the most valuable force multiplier that America's enemies have.
INVASION USA
Illegal aliens murder
12 Americans daily
Death toll in 2006 far overshadows total
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan
Posted: November 28, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – While the military "quagmire" in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups have produced estimates based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863. Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to the Department of Defense.
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But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
While no one – in or out of government – tracks all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.
A report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Study found 20 percent of fatal accidents involve at least one driver who lacks a valid license. In California, another study showed that those who have never held a valid license are about five times more likely to be involved in a fatal road accident than licensed drivers.
Statistically, that makes them an even greater danger on the road than drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked – and nearly as dangerous as drunk drivers.
King also reports eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day – a total of 2,920 annually.
Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.
As the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. increases, so does the number of American victims.
According to Edwin Rubenstien, president of ESR Research Economic Consultants, in Indianapolis in 1980, federal and state correctional facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in all U.S. jails and prisons.
While the federal government doesn't track illegal alien murders, illegal alien rapes or illegal alien drunk driving deaths, it has studied illegal aliens incarcerated in U.S. prisons.
In April 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following:
* The 55,322 illegal aliens studied represented a total of 459,614 arrests – some eight arrests per illegal alien;
* Their arrests represented a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses – some 13 offenses per illegal alien;
* 36 percent had been arrested at least five times before.
"While the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who work hard and are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families, (something you or I would probably do if we were in their place), it is also a fact that a disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals and sexual predators," states Peter Wagner, author of a new report called "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration." "That is part of the dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the 'good' in we get the 'bad' along with them. The question is, how much 'bad' is acceptable and at what price?"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53103
How come I don't see any estimates published by TIME of the number of bad guys we've eliminated ?
The impression they seem to want to create is that only Americans are dying and no terrorists are being eliminated.
Of course the subliminal message being given is we are there for no reason at all and that nothing is being accomplished.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm
There were 2503 people murdered in California in 2005 alone.
Within 6 months almost 14000 Americans lost their lives for Korean freedom.
3475 Americans lost their lives for Korean freedom in one month (November, 1950).
By the time he stepped down as president, about 2 1/2 years later, almost 30,000 Americans had died for Korean freedom.
Can anyone imagine the press attacks on Bush if 14,000 men and women had lost their lives in the first six months in Iraq?
The loss of anyone is a damn shame. But we'll only make the deaths more tragic if we leave Iraq in chaos.
3000 DEAD GIs. 50,000,000 FREE PEOPLE. SAD BUT WORTH IT.
I'll bet that records of auto accidents in 2006 will reveal that over 40,000 people were killed. This number is one that appears every year for quite a few years.
The public really gets upset about this, right? (sarcasm)
I wish the media would stop writing about the numbers of troops killed in Iraq--servicemen have always been killed in battles. If people had complained about the thousands killed in WW II and we ended the war for that reason, and that reason only, we would all be speaking either Japanese or German today.
Because like Lindhberg, Kennedy, and other weak kneed individuals, they cannot pay for what they bought - hence liberals have no ability to back up their desires of peace, and lack the moral inclination to say a simple phrase:
You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?
As you said, and I concur - the cost of freedom is high, always in blood, and never on sale.
Of course liberals are always flapping their lips - they got this way because they were at one time aligned with the Soviets during the cold war, and Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy found them. Which is why they hate the government and the military. Of course the trail of liberalism is long and disappears among the folds of time, but the belief that freedom is free is a simple if not "white" lie.
You're correct. The loss of 3,000 soldiers, airmen, marines is tragic in the personal sense, but militarily insignificant.
According to my calculations, we 'lost' over 2,000 non-combatant civilians in New York City over the same 4-year period.
What is our exit strategy from NYC?
the entire point of this article is to influence your opinion into thinking that way, thinking that everyone is "anti-war".....dont fall for it The anti-war movement was just as strong (if not more) back in the time of WWII, only now the AW movement is firmly imbedded in the MSM and the public education system.