More death's during peacetime???

[avatar4321]

http://www.nysun.com/article/48926

The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133. This is tragic, as are all deaths due to war, and we are facing a cowardly enemy unlike any other in our past that hides behind innocent citizens. Each death is blazoned in the headlines of newspapers and Internet sites. What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993; 1,109 in 1994; 1,055 in 1995; 1,008 in 1996. That's 4,417 deaths in peacetime but, of course, who's counting?

The stats can be found here.

Does anyone else find it incredibly odd that there have been more deaths during peacetime in the 90s then during a time of war?

[Insein]

http://www.nysun.com/article/48926



The stats can be found here.

Does anyone else find it incredibly odd that there have been more deaths during peacetime in the 90s then during a time of war?

I'd put an emphasis on "peacetime." MAny people were oblivious, including the president at the time that we were at war. Our enemy declared it in 93 and we only chose to respond in 2001.

[CSM]

http://www.nysun.com/article/48926



The stats can be found here.

Does anyone else find it incredibly odd that there have been more deaths during peacetime in the 90s then during a time of war?

Now there is an "Inconvenient Truth"!!!!

[darin]

In addition to the Iraq Deaths - how many soldiers died during training and during other events? To be fair, you'd have to add those to the Iraq Deaths.

[Gaffer]

In addition to the Iraq Deaths - how many soldiers died during training and during other events? To be fair, you'd have to add those to the Iraq Deaths.

There are not usually many deaths during training. Biggest share come in aircraft crashes during training missions.

As for iraqi's, how many were killed by US forces and how many were killed by iraqi's? How many were killed by al queda?

[darin]

Eleventy.

[Gaffer]

Eleventy.

I thought it was eleventyleven