Friday, March 24, 2006

Check the Numbers!

It seems that allot of people have a lot of heartburn with the number of casualties the Iraq war has. Unfortunately, death happens in wars. It is unavoidable. Death in the military is not new either. It happens on our ships, at our bases, during training, during everyday work. But since we have all these bleeding heart liberal asswipes crying about it, Let me see if we can put those 2400 dead US soldiers in some kind of perspective:

In three years 2400 US servicemen and women have been killed

In that same 3-year period 120,000
Americans were killed in Automobile accidents.

In that same three-year period
45, 000 Americans were killed in falls.

In that same three-year period 27,000
Americans were killed from poison.

In that same three-year period 12,000 Americans were killed by drowning.
 
In that same three year period 1,691,000 Americans were killed by cancer.
 
In that same three year period 50,000 Americans were murdered in our streets.
 
That is 1,944,637 Americans killed from right here in the Continental US. (Mind you, for those looking to be exact, I rounded the numbers off to make it easier for the dumbass democrats to figure out.) Looking at those numbers 2400 service members in 3 years is pretty damn good numbers. Look at these are startling statistics that tend to be forgotten with the passage of time: World War II, 406,000 U.S. Service Members killed; Korea 55,000 U.S. Service Members killed; Vietnam, 58,100 U.S. Service Members killed, the Persian Gulf, 147 U.S. Service Members killed.
 
So looking at that perspective, I think our military leaders and members on the ground in Iraq have done a pretty good job protecting themselves and each other. Maybe all that money spent on training was worth it.

 

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