The United States has lost 3500 soldiers in 4 years in Iraq. This comes out to 875 deaths per year. In the United States, the murder rate is 16,000 per year. I wonder, which country is safer, Iraq or the United States?
2007-06-06 15:18:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I would feel safer on a visit to Baghdad than a trip through Detroit
2007-06-06 15:21:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Casualty is generally categorised with the aid of deaths led to with the aid of enemy hearth. now and lower back, squaddies die of organic motives, or maybe suicide and not blanketed in the casualty. In some wars, casualties are additionally saved secret, for many motives. sturdy occasion is Somalia, the place we purely heard of the loss of life of 18 squaddies, repeatedly and positively think of that purely 18 squaddies have been killed there. even although, the statistic casualty is better than that. From 1992-ninety 4, a finished of a hundred thirty five united statessoldiers died in Somalia, yet purely 18 of them have been made generally happening because of the fact of a nicely-liked conflict in that conflict or operation. comparable element is going for all wars.
2016-10-07 00:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by bebber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The USA is safer, more than 16,000 Iraqis die in Iraq every 6 months an it isn't even 1 tenth the size of the USA..
2007-06-06 15:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by Peter Pumpkin Eater 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
America is by far safer. I feel so sorry for the families of our fallen soldiers. I know we need to be there but i hope our soldiers are able to come home very soon.
2007-06-06 15:23:01 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ Mel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um... the Iraqi Civilian death toll per year has been a whopping 160,000 per year.
Ten times higher than ours.
2007-06-06 15:43:36 · answer #5 · answered by ck4829 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None. We have our troops taking care of Iraquis, and that's not exactly working. Meanwhile, the US is left open for more terrorist attacks. I'm going to Dominican Republic, Bush, if you dont mind.
2007-06-06 15:25:53 · answer #6 · answered by Diamantez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And you are forgetting about so-called total unrecoverable losses, i.e. killed and disabled because of heavy wounds (lost limbs, eyesight, heavy head and chest wounds, etc.)
The total unrecoverable losses in Iraq and Afghanistan are about 20000.
2007-06-06 15:29:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Safer than New York City
2007-06-06 15:23:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Good point. I'm sick of the media's ticker of casualties. People are going to die in a war and it's terrible. The media seems to relish reporting every one of them.
2007-06-06 15:23:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
but you are forgetting the civilians who have died since the war started, about 75,000.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
I'll take the "D" anytime !
2007-06-06 15:24:52 · answer #10 · answered by spookytooth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋