Posted on 11/23/2007 6:53:58 AM PST by drzz
There have been remarkably low fatalities in the Iraqi Freedom campaign- considering it is war. In fact, just this month the losses in Iraq and Afghanistan combined passed the halfway mark of military fatalities during the Clinton Years.
The US has lost 3434 soldiers and marines in Iraq and 390 soldiers and marines in Afghanistan over the past 5 years. This total of 3824 has passed half of the number of soldiers lost during the Clinton years during peacetime.
** The US has been fighting the War on Terror for over 5 years and has lost just over half the soldiers in battle as the Clinton Administration was losing during peacetime in 8 years.
It puts things into perspective. Don't expect this grim milestone to be reported by the mainstream media any time too soon.
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[** The US has been fighting the War on Terror for over 5 years and has lost just over half the soldiers in battle as the Clinton Administration was losing during peacetime in 8 years. ]
I would like to see sources cited.
The US has lost 3434 soldiers and marines in Iraq and 390 soldiers and marines in Afghanistan over the past 5 years. This total of 3824 has passed half of the number of soldiers lost during the Clinton years during peacetime.
** The US has been fighting the War on Terror for over 5 years and has lost just over half the soldiers in battle as the Clinton Administration was losing during peacetime in 8 years.
Something to beat the Dems over the head leading up to the election.
Clinton years were NOT peacetime. Bosnia, Somalia, Cole, Yugoslavia.
There were a lot of training accidents during the Clinton years.
Seems like an apples and oranges argument to me.
And let's not forget the great war against the democrat party from 1861-1865. The Republican Party of the North, fought to liberate the South from the slavery of the democrat party. 562,130 deaths in the Civil War, almost 200 times the deaths in the War on Terror.
Heck, you might even be tempted to say that the democrat party is a far, far more deadly enemy of the US than al Queda.
Clinton mis-managed his own life too.
The only difference is D and R behind the Presidents name.
still no source. And, to be comparable, it would have to include whatever is the comparable “total military deaths” (training, accidents, heart attacks, whatever) that the clinton year numbers were. I don’t doubt that the spread between the two administrations would be less than some people thnk, but it will still be visible. The Iraq war isn’t just “statistical noise.” That cheapens the real sacrifices made — and isn’t accurate.
I would like this to be true, but I really have a hard time believing it. I really need to see a numbers breakdown.
While the Clinton era saw a fair number of conflicts, most were limited in scope and saw a fairly low number of US military casualties.
Marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen. All four branches have lost personnel.
Anyways, this is about countering leftist media lies. The MSM and the Left are well on their way to cementing Iraq and Afghanistan as failure and those that fought as failures. Sorry, but it is what they are doing and when kids go to Google it in five, twenty years, the'll just get piles of lefty hits, and they believe it because their lefty teachers told them so.
Sources FOX http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311644,00.html
SEE the figures in the link given with this thread.
Yes, but that was NOT full wars.
Bosnia war is nothing compared to Iraq or Afghanistan.
"Might"???
What's this "might?"
The Congressional Research Service, which compiled war casualty statistics from the Revolutionary War to present day conflicts, reported that 4,699 members of the U.S. military died in 1981 and ‘82 — a period when the U.S. had only limited troop deployments to conflicts in the Mideast. That number of deaths is nearly 900 more than the 3,800 deaths during 2005 and ‘06, when the U.S. was fully committed to large-scale military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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According to the raw figures, of the 2,380 members of the military who died during active duty in 1981, 1,524 were killed in accidents, 145 by homicide, 457 by illness and 241 from self-inflicted wounds. That compares with the 1,942 killed in 2005; of that number, 632 died from accidents, 739 from hostile action, 49 from homicide, 281 from illness, 150 from self-inflicted wounds and 72 whose causes of death were still pending. Eleven deaths in ’81 and 19 deaths in ’05 were classified as “undetermined.”
Government Report: More Military Deaths in Some Years of Peace Than War
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311644,00.html
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