How much do you think the active duty death toll has risen, since the war started?

Question

All active (including non combat deaths) military deaths, AVERAGED 938 deaths per year, under each year during Clinton's administration.

All active (INCLUDING COMBAT AND NON COMBAT DEATHS) military deaths AVERAGED 1465 deaths per year between 2001-2006 (as 2007 is not yet conclusive), which INCLUDES war time deaths.

How can the active military death rate not even double during war time?

Does this put things in perspective for the liberals who claim we should bring our troops home (retreat) because of the number of military deaths?

http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/Death_Rates.pdf



How long before a sniveling liberal accuses me of not caring about our military, because I brought statistics?

click the magnify glass icon, and then click the screen to magnify it. It will get much bigger.

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I placed a question citing the freedom of information act to the department of defense, and they replied with this link.

LMAO IT TOOK 26 MINUTES FOR A ""Sniveling liberal to accuses me of not caring about our military, because I brought statistics?"""

why don't these pathetic losers read?

Answer 1

Guess how many died in Kosovo when Clinton was president. None not one. Even papa bear O'Reilly estimates another 1000 will die in Iraq over the next year.

Answer 2

This sniveling liberal looked at your link - and it's instantly apparent that the accidental death rate was in continuous decline under Clinton - then the accidental rate and the combat deaths shot up under Bush the flaming idiot little twerp.

So who cares about the troops enough to keep them alive? - It was that sniveling Clinton.

Why aren't you in Iraq fighting?

Answer 3

I consider myself liberal, but not sniveling. I think that we should think about the OTHER deaths in the middle east. Do you know how many civilians have died or been killed as a direct result of our occupation? I thought not. An accurate estimation done by the British journal 'The Lancet' says around One hundred Thousand. If you asked a German man how many Jews were killed in concentration camps, and he shrugged his shoulders and said " I dont care." You would be upset. If you ask a random person on the street in the U.S. how many civilians have died because of our military presence in the middle east, and they shrug their shoulders and mumbled that they dont care or it doesn't matter, how is that not upsetting? A civilian death is a tragic loss no matter what country or reason is behind it. We need to stop this occupation of Iraq immediately. History could have taught us an important lesson, but we ignored it. It is time to stop, and listen.

Answer 4

Do us all a favor and let us know how many American deaths it will take before our country has suffered a significant loss.


Conservatives claim to support out troops and then make comments like this one. If you really did support our troops then every single death caused by war would be significant. A single death would mean a lot. Nothing is relative when you're talking about dying for ones country.


We sniveling liberals actually care about the losses suffered by our soldiers and there families. When they die in vain we get a little upset.

Answer 5

It's not the number of deaths themselves. It the reasoning behind it.

You'd hear very little if all these deaths happened while trying to get bin Laden.

ADD: I'll take it a bit further.You hear less about it from us if there were actually some political progress being made over there, but there isn't.

Answer 6

another Conservative attempt to try and compare U.S. troop deaths in the Clinton era vs. the Bush era.

Somewhere around 4000 U.S. troops died in a 4 year period when Clinton was president. That figure included all causes of death for the nearly 1.7 million enlisted service members such as accidental death, suicides, illness and disease. The rate of deaths was almost identical to non-military mortality rates. Oops, sorry for giving you some statistics.

Here is a huge statistic you Conservatives NEVER mention when trying to make this argument. There have been close to 35,000 U.S. casualties in this war. Many of the wounded have been permanently and irrevocably damaged and are being given less than stellar care upon their return as evidenced by the major problems at Walter Reed hospital.

ADD the numbers of wounded and dead military members serving under Bush and 10 times as many have paid a personal price for this unnecessary war.

there is your PERSPECTIVE........

No one had to die in the Iraqi war. It was b.s. from the first day.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

That is because they don't like facts that proves them wrong. They don't even support the military in the first place. They have been hating the military for a long time. Even during Viet Nam they showed how much they hated the military by calling them baby killers. Yet they want abortion on demand ( but that not killing babies outside the womb).`Just like the election of 04 they tried to scare everyone into thinking that there was going to be a draft if Republicans were elected. even though it was a Democrat that tried to get it started up again.

Answer 9

it's difficult to read your link. very small text. but i presume active duty does not include the national guard and the army reserves?

there are relatively few body bags in iraq because of the excellent medical care. but i think there are more amputees for the same reason.

this would not just be stat to you if you lost an arm or leg or eye in iraq.

Answer 10

Because the death rate is not being reported accurately. Not to mention the death rate of "private contractors" AKA Blackwater employees, AKA mercinaries which isn't counted at all.