I looked up the figures on deaths attributed to drunk drivers on the MADD website, pretty staggering. This number is much larger than the fatalities that our troops in Iraq are totaling. Everyone is upset and talking about the military fatalities, but no one seems to care or even be aware of what is happening on our highways, why is that ?
2007-02-23 12:43:06 · 8 answers · asked by Robert D 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The information on MADD is staggering and should be considered but a increasingly unpopular war and its fatalities should not be compared to highway deaths. It is comparing apples with oranges.
This will sound cold-hearted but a highway casuality does not impact a nation as much a war because our lives can be directly affected by it. It can impact our status in the world, can raise prices in the nation and when we see no real improvement in the war it makes us question our leadership. Highway deaths do not do any of this.
By the way, the fatalities in Iraq might seem low but also consider the casualities which are near 25,000. Battlefield medicine has made leaps and bounds in technology and has saved the lives of soldiers who would have been dead in other wars. We have an astounding rate of head injuries in Iraq War veterans who have survived, never in a war before have we seen this.
2007-02-23 16:53:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... someone else brought this up the other day and I refered them to the California Highway Patrol's website... where our ANNUAL average road fatalities are on the order of 3500 per year for the last 20 years.
I'm trying to research the DOD budget to find where the Pentagon had requested the up-armor kits for the Hummers and helicopters for decades... yet the Congress just kept cutting those budgets.
It's our media pandering to the public... war is flashier than highway deaths... and Anna Nicole Smith is flashier than the War.
2007-02-23 12:55:46 · answer #2 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If highway fatalities got as much press as overseas wars, they'd get a lot more attention, I think. It's the fault of the media that little is done - either by the driving public or the road builders - to stem the tide of road accidents.
2007-02-23 12:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by TitoBob 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that they are comparable, Bush made a concous decision to Invade without cause. A drunk driver isn't able to make concous decision. Both are tragidies that show the state of mental heath in America, ditto on the abortion, though I am pro-choice I do see abortion as sad, but it's a choice a mother should have to make, not a government. As a Christian, I belive that we need free will to be responsible for our lives, and having a government take that over is wrong, as well, any infant is going to go to heaven, as God is a just God and wouldn't punish for eternity someone who didn't have any option about what was done to them.
2007-02-23 13:01:24 · answer #4 · answered by oneirondreamer 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Liberals can't stop drunk driving to get votes,so they try to lose the war in Iraq to get votes.I wonder which is more important to Ted Kennedy.Never mind he's to drunk to ask.
2007-02-23 15:21:54 · answer #5 · answered by shawnn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell, how about abortions ! They make combat deaths look minuscule in comparison ! The fact is, they're both an American tragedy !
2007-02-23 12:48:39 · answer #6 · answered by briang731/ bvincent 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's simple. People are stupid.
More children accidentally drown in swimming pools each year than are killed in gun accidents. Yet people cry for gun control, not pool control.
2007-02-24 00:59:04 · answer #7 · answered by Maggie E 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Liberal idiots don't care... they just like to hear themselves babbling...
2007-02-23 12:53:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋