rssUS Casualties Rise in Iraq
Friday, February 01, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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<p>Still don’t believe me about <a id="eynf" href="../../../view/at-least-64-die-in" title="signs">signs</a> of <a id="gi8c" href="../../../view/security-gains-from" title="security backsliding in Iraq">security backsliding in Iraq</a> ? After a four-month consecutive decline, U.S. deaths in Iraq rose in January, according to <a id="xx9h" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/26030.html" title="Nancy Youssef of McClatchy">Nancy Youssef of McClatchy</a>.</p>
<blockquote>The U.S. death toll in Iraq increased in January, ending a four-month drop in casualties, and most of the deaths occurred outside Baghdad or the once-restive Anbar province, according to military statistics.
<p><br />In all, 38 American service members had been reported killed in January by Thursday evening, compared with 23 in December. Of those, 33 died from hostile action, but only nine of them in Baghdad or Anbar.</p>
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<p>A total of 3,942 American service members have been killed in Iraq as of Thursday, according to icasualties.org, an independent Web site that tracks the statistics.</p>
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<p>U.S. officials in Iraq said the death toll had risen because the military was targeting armed groups that had been driven out of Baghdad and Anbar by the increase in American troops.</p>
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8 Comments
Comment posted February 5, 2008 @ 12:02 am
Cherry pick this one Dave Johnson
Bet you didn’t know the following!? I surely did not..??
Military losses for 20 years
These are some rather eye-opening facts: Since the start of the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, the sacrifice has been enormous. In the time period from the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 through now, we have lost over 3000 military personnel to enemy action and accidents. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the following statistics: The annual fatalities of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:
1980 ………. 2,392
1981 ……… 2,380
1984 ………. 1,999
1988 ………. 1,819
1989 ………. 1,636
1990 ……… 1,508
1991 ………. 1,787
1992 ……….1,293
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1993 ………. 1,213
1994 ………. 1,075
1995 ………..2,465
1996 ……… 2,318 13,417 deaths
1997 ………. 817
1998 ……… 2,252
1999 ………. 1,984
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2000 ………. 1,983
2001 ………. 890
2002 ………. 1,007 9,016 deaths
2003 ………. 1,410
2004 ………. 1,887
2005 ……… 919
2006………. 920
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If you are confused when you look at these figures…so was I. Do these figures mean that the loss from the latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel during the previoius 8 years; when America wasn’t even involved in a war? And, I was even more confused; when I read that in 1980, there were 2,392 US military fatalities!
These figures indicate that many of our Media will pick and choose. They present only those ‘facts’ which support their agenda-driven reporting. Why do so many of them march in lock-step to twist the truth. Where do so many of them get their marching-orders for their agenda?
Our Mainstream Print and TV media also like to slant that these brave men and women, who are losing their lives in Iraq, are mostly minorities! Wrong AGAIN— just one more media lie! The latest census, of Americans, shows the following distribution of American citizens, by Race:
European descent (White) ……. 69.12%
Hispanic ………………………… 12.5%
Black………………………………. 12.3%
Asian ……………………………… 3.7%
Native American ………………… 1.0%
Other ……………………………….. 2.6%
Now… here are the fatalities by Race; over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:
European descent (white) ….. 74.31%
Hispanic ………………………. 10.74%
Black …………………………… 9.67%
Asian …………………………. . 1.81%
Native American ……………….. 1.09%
Other ……………………………. . 33%
You do the Math! These figures don’t lie… but, Media-liars figure…and they sway public opinion! (These statistics are published by Congressional Research Service, and they may be confirmed by anyone at:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf )
Comment posted February 3, 2008 @ 2:25 am
If we pull our eyes up from the cherry-picked trees of the last months of last year, we can see the forest: 2007 was the bloodiest year ever for US soldiers: 901 lost their lives in this illegal and immoral occupation of the WRONG country. This compares to 486 in the first full year after the invasion of Iraq. Of course, in that year, there were NO Al Qaeda in Iraq. Thanks to Bush’s hubris and arrogance, Al Qaeda is firmly and well-established now.
Comment posted February 2, 2008 @ 8:25 pm
If we pull our eyes up from the cherry-picked trees of the last months of last year, we can see the forest: 2007 was the bloodiest year ever for US soldiers: 901 lost their lives in this illegal and immoral occupation of the WRONG country. This compares to 486 in the first full year after the invasion of Iraq. Of course, in that year, there were NO Al Qaeda in Iraq. Thanks to Bush's hubris and arrogance, Al Qaeda is firmly and well-established now.
Comment posted February 4, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
Cherry pick this one Dave Johnson
Bet you didn't know the following!? I surely did not..??
Military losses for 20 years
These are some rather eye-opening facts: Since the start of the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, the sacrifice has been enormous. In the time period from the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 through now, we have lost over 3000 military personnel to enemy action and accidents. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the following statistics: The annual fatalities of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:
1980 ………. 2,392
1981 ……… 2,380
1984 ………. 1,999
1988 ………. 1,819
1989 ………. 1,636
1990 ……… 1,508
1991 ………. 1,787
1992 ……….1,293
—————————————————-
1993 ………. 1,213
1994 ………. 1,075
1995 ………..2,465
1996 ……… 2,318 13,417 deaths
1997 ………. 817
1998 ……… 2,252
1999 ………. 1,984
—————————————————-
2000 ………. 1,983
2001 ………. 890
2002 ………. 1,007 9,016 deaths
2003 ………. 1,410
2004 ………. 1,887
2005 ……… 919
2006………. 920
—————————————————-
If you are confused when you look at these figures…so was I. Do these figures mean that the loss from the latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel during the previoius 8 years; when America wasn't even involved in a war? And, I was even more confused; when I read that in 1980, there were 2,392 US military fatalities!
These figures indicate that many of our Media will pick and choose. They present only those 'facts' which support their agenda-driven reporting. Why do so many of them march in lock-step to twist the truth. Where do so many of them get their marching-orders for their agenda?
Our Mainstream Print and TV media also like to slant that these brave men and women, who are losing their lives in Iraq, are mostly minorities! Wrong AGAIN— just one more media lie! The latest census, of Americans, shows the following distribution of American citizens, by Race:
European descent (White) ……. 69.12%
Hispanic ………………………… 12.5%
Black………………………………. 12.3%
Asian ……………………………… 3.7%
Native American ………………… 1.0%
Other ……………………………….. 2.6%
Now… here are the fatalities by Race; over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:
European descent (white) ….. 74.31%
Hispanic ………………………. 10.74%
Black …………………………… 9.67%
Asian …………………………. . 1.81%
Native American ……………….. 1.09%
Other ……………………………. . 33%
You do the Math! These figures don't lie… but, Media-liars figure…and they sway public opinion! (These statistics are published by Congressional Research Service, and they may be confirmed by anyone at:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf )
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