[norwaypinesavage]

"Pentagon study found that as many as 80 percent of a random sample of Marines killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor."

This is like saying that a random sample of people dying from falling out of trees would have survived if trees had guard rails. This doesn't prove that all trees need guard rails. Only fools would cite this as a definitive study

[Mia T]

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Attacking from the other side, wasn't the left complaining only recently about how modern technology had 'unfairly' lowered the death rate for 'Bush's War'??!

[RedEyeJack]

I saw the study today. Three pages. The sample was not random. It was not a sample. The study population was all the Marines who died of combat wounds to the torso during a period that was roughly from the start of the war in 2003 until this summer. About 2 years. The purpose was to provide data that might be used to redesign the next generation of torso body armor. The politicalization of this appears to be a long stretch in the view of the analyst who have looked at it.