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Originally Posted by willravel
So they're not safer in the US than they are in Iraq?
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US fatalities in Iraq DOD.
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Total: 3808 Confirmed: 3806
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http://www.icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx
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Take a look at the actual US Military Casualty figures since 1980. If you do the math, you wil find quite a few surpises. First of all, let's compare numbers of US Military personnel that died during the first term of the last four presidents.
George W. Bush . . . . . 5187 (2001-2004)
Bill Clinton . . . . . . . . . 4302 (1993-1996)
George H.W. Bush . . . . 6223 (1989-1992)
Ronald Reagan . . . . . . 9163 (1981-1984)
Even during the (per MSM) utopic peacetime of Bill Clinton's term, we lost 4302 service personnel. H.W. Bush and Reagan actually lost significantly more personnel while never fighting an extensive war, much less a simulaltaneous war on two theaters (Iraq and Afghanistan). Even the dovish Carter lost more people duing his last year in office, in 1980 lost 2392, than W. has lost in any single year of his presidency. (2005 figures are not available but I would wager the numbers would be slightly higher than 2004.)
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http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/003564.html
Soldiers die in combat but they also die for other reasons. If you really wanted to know if they would be safer another thing to look at would be the death rate of our comparable civilian population and at least adjust for that factor.
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