On Average, Over Two American Soldiers Have Been Killed Every Day For 1,517 Days !!!

[WillyT]

If you care to do the math.

So one could assume, that if we were to be there six months from now in the same situation, that we will have another 400 dead. Another year... 800 dead, and so on...



Link: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. K&R

[JTG of the PRB]

2. Sickening.

That statistic truly is sickening. It makes me feel terrible every time I hear about another death...

Excellent post.

[Monkeyman]

3. K&R

[Lisa]

4. I couldn't believe it, when I heard Rumsfeld shrugging off 1 or 2 deaths per day ....

Back when this mess started, he implied that this was minimal. (Of course, he didn't bother mentioning that at least 10 times as many Iraqis would also die on an average day.) If Bill Maher or Howard Dean had uttered those words, the media would still be screaming!

[Monkeyman]

5. Tony Snowjob's it only a number

[mike_c]

6. how many Iraqis have American soldiers murdered in that time...?

hmmm,looks like about 451 Iraqis per day at that rate.

[WillyT]

7. Yep... Unfortunately, It Ain't Gonna Be The Number Of Iraqi Dead...

that brings this illegal disaster to an end.

Just sayin...

[mike_c]

10. well, maybe that's the number that will put the perpetrators in jail for a long time....

One can hope.

[WillyT]

12. I'm All For That !!! - The Hague Can Have 'Em All...

And keep 'em forever.

[karlrschneider]

8. It's actually one every 11 hours.

(Yes, same metric just expressed a bit differently)
:cry:

[mike_c]

9. or about one Iraqi every 3 minutes....

America's gift to the nation of Iraq. A really efficient corpse maker.

[karlrschneider]

11. Yes and that doesn't even address the thousands who have fled their own country.

Did you catch Riverbend's latest?

:cry:

[frogcycle]

13. but the rate is increasing

its closer to four/day lately - so the projection would likely be higher