Left wing Liberal Media Can they be trusted?

Question

Take a look at the numbers below and then ask why we didn't hear about the service deaths when they passed 1000, 2000 or more in the years previous to our being involved in a war.



As tragic as the loss of any soldier is, consider this: below is a list of deaths of soldiers while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2004:

FIGURES ARE CONFIRMED ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SITE
1980 2,392
1981 2,380
1982 2,319
1983 2,465
1984 1,999
1985 2,252
1986 1,984
1987 1,983
1988 1,819
1989 1,636
1990 1,507
1991 1,787
1992 1,293
1993 1,213
1994 1,075
1995 1,040
1996 974
1997 817
1998 827
1999 796
2000 758
2001 891
2002 999
2003 1,410 534*
2004 1,887 900*
2005 919*
2006 920*

* Figures are Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom fatalities only

Now, are you confused when you look at these figures? I was. Especially when I saw that in 1980, during the reign of President Carter "Nobel Peace Prize" himself, there were 2,392 military fatalities of U.S.soldiers.

What this clearly indicates is that our media and our liberal politicians pick and choose. They choose NOT to present the facts.

Another fact our left media and politicians like to slant is that these brave men and women losing their lives are minorities. The latest U.S. Census shows the following:
European descent (white) 69.12%
Hispanic 12.5%
African American 12.3%
Asian 3.7%
Native American 1.0%
Other 2.6%

Now, the fatalities over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom are:
European descent (white) 74.31%
Hispanic 10.74%
African American 9.67%
Asian 1.81%
Native American 1.09%
Other 2.33%

Hmm.......

Check the Carter and Clinton years and note we where not in a stage of War . How scary is it going to be if A Liberal Democrat is elected President now ? Every time a Liberal Democrat wins America comes a step closer to final destruction

Astros : Reply right off the snap tries to remove or manipulate facts . This is the one thing the Left is good at I can't wait to see more pathetic attempts at a reply by simple minded Liberals

GJ I opened your answer again cause it's a perfect example of left wing spin manipulating Facts to suet your simple mind LEFT WING LIBERALS LIKE YOUR SELF HAVE TO DO THIS BECAUSE IT WOULD SHOW HOW WRONG THEY ARE IF THEY TELL THE TRUTH! One would think that would bother them but they are so use to not telling the truth they don't realize how pathetic they look

Nicole: let me guess a Rocket Scientist perhaps? ...................... Yes Nicole I'm being s.a.r.c.a.s.t.i.c..........Look it up. LMAO

Midnight I totally am entertained by your answers ! Compared to you Nicole is a Rocket scientist. I can't stop laughing

Answer 1

and your worried about deaths??? rofl lmfao...how bout something more basic like the clinton..."legacy"

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
the fact you here little about the mess the clintons left us in as hillary makes her bid to do it all over again makes the answer about trusting the left more than just a bit obvious....OF COURSE NOT.

Answer 2

A few FACTS you missed here. Let's just look at 1980 since you blame that on Carter.

Deaths: 2391

Causes:
Accident: 1577
Illness: 401
Homicide (murder): 161
Self Inflicted (suicide): 236
Pending/Undetermined: 15
Hostile Deaths: 1

Sometimes Half a Truth is the same as a lie! Half the Facts tell half of the story.

So did the "liberal media" cause all those accidental deaths in 1980? Perhaps they were the ones who murdered those soldiers.

The "racial" figures are pretty misleading too because it doesn't tell us the income level of the families these soldiers came from. There's no such thing as a poor white kid? I haven't heard anyone say more minorities are dying...I HAVE heard them say that they all are overwhelmingly POOR...that most kids go into the military these days to pay for college and they come from the lower socio-economic segment of society which these days includes all "races". I live in a Rural community (population 600) that is predominately white and POOR...we have lost 2 and have 2 more missing some pieces.

Bye the way the media isn't "liberal" or "conservative" it is now purely Fascist. Look up the definition of fascism.

Answer 3

Yes.

You slant and distort by not including non combat deaths in the totals for 2003 through 2006.You're simply showing that right wingers are not to be trusted. If you ADD the non combat AND combat deaths you get:

2003 1410 + 534 = 1994 deaths
2004 1887 + 900 = 2787 deaths

The declining numbers of military deaths during the Reagan & Bush 41 administrations reflect the downsizing of the military that these presidents did as the cold war petered out. The huge rise in deaths from 2003 shows the sacrifice of our soldier's lives under Bush.

Answer 4

Hmmm, I'm confused, President Carter won the Peace prize before or during his term? You make it sound like that. I believe the year was 2002.

Nixon didn't do so well in office either, but he did afterwards.

I'm sorry, I haven't heard squat about which race has more casualties. All I have heard on a daily basis is, more American troops have been killed.

As for that list of troops killed by year. I'm going to go read up on my history because I cannot for the life of me think of or remember why we were losing so many troops between the years 1987 - 1990

Add: Yes, Carter was President until 01-1981

Answer 5

So I have to ask why the neo Nazi Progressive Leftists love antisemitism so much. Simple. Blame anyone rather than accept responsibility for the outcome of your own foolishness. So why Semites? Well, as a group, they are well disciplined. They are, as a result, successful. Liberals shun responsibility and want to spread the Liabilities they create and the cost of cleaning up their messes on the whole of society. That requites Powerful Government confiscating all assets and doling them out to those who refuse to be responsible citizens and make the responsible work to correct the damages caused by their disasters. Therefore, the Semites who don't share their ludicrous desires Must be against their imagined utopian society. The response? Genocide comes to mind as a logical outcome and that becomes their "appropriate" action as the new Socialist Nazi Hitler Youth. Allowing Semites to exist just underscores how successful their behavior is when it is compared to the behaviors of Liberals. It's embarrassing to have such examples proving their foolishness. They MUST be eliminated. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Answer 6

You sure did a lot of research to prove your point but you don't seem to understand a lick of it.

1. Carter was not in office in 1980. Look it up.
2. There are fatalities in the military every year due to non combat reasons. Think of it as a vast city. People die in the big cities in this country every day. Even without war the military is a dangerous occupation.
3. Calling the media liberally biased in this day and age is a joke. Most of the media is owned by conservatively based big business and do the bidding of the conservative agenda. These has been minimal coverage of peace protests and most other liberally biased events.

Get your facts straight.

Answer 7

It would seem you are saying that during the reign of neo-cons like Reagan and Bush Jr there are higher levels of deaths due to the illegal wars we are fighting.
Whereas while Clinton was in control - despite the need for some military action there was significantly lower death counts. (Clinton ave 938, Bush Jr ave (for years for which you have provided complete data) 1230, Reagan ave 2150)
And you claim that the bias for not reporting this is pro-liberal????

Answer 8

No media can be trusted, liberal OR conservative.

But you also need to double check the DOD figures, what do they include in their numbers and has the reporting system changed over the years?? You know and I know that a deah is a death, but not all are necessarily counted the same way statistically.

Answer 9

So how many lives need to be dead before we can talk about it? If a war was not to be placed in the first place, than isn't One life lost One too many?
FYI: the govt hides death tolls of wars (check out Vietnam death tolls...it's all an approximate). This was to not demoralize the civilians who were already War-weary. I believe it was the so called "liberal" media who caught the realities of how grueling the war was on camera.

Answer 10

To answer your question, I think the media needs a lot of retooling.

Bad news is good news for them, so who cares if the scales if the media are unbalanced, right? But in all seriousness, I'm afraid you probably won't find the answers you're looking for. Most people tend to think that the media is right wing (I'm from California, a very liberal state). So they'll say the complete opposite.

Answer 11

I think the question you need to be asking is how many deaths pre Iraq 2 were caused by an illegal war?