An Overview Of Military Deaths In The Past 26 Years

The following item found its way to my e-mail box today. A brief Google search took me to the source of the message, a posting by “gruffcw3″ on a web site called VAJOE.COM. With Red feeling under the weather today and taking a much needed break from the usual commentary, I thought I’d post this message for the Monkey faithful to discuss. – Dugga

Bet you didn’t know the following! I surely did not.

These are some rather eye-opening facts: Since the start of the war on terror in Iraq and Afganistan, 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 8 Clinton years: 13,417 deaths
1996 ......... 2,318
1997 ......... 817
1998 ......... 2,252
1999 ......... 1,984 ----------
2000 ......... 1,983
2001 ......... 890
2002 ......... 1,007 7 BUSH years @ 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 two latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel during Mr. Clinton ‘s presidency; when America wasn’t even involved in a war? And, I was even more confused; when I read that in 1980, during the reign of President (Nobel Peace Prize) Jimmy Carter, there were 2,392 US military fatalities!

These figures indicate that many of our Media & Politicians 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, and many Politicians 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 ................... 12.50%
Black....................... 12.30%
Asian ....................... 3.70%
Native American ............. 1.00%
Other ....................... 2.60%

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 ........................ 0.33%

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 (Please look at this report site if you have the chance.)

Now ask yourself these two questions:
1. ‘Why does the mainstream Print and TV Media never provide statistics like these?’
2. ‘Why do the mainstream media hate the web as much as they do?’

You do the Math! These figures don’t lie… but, Media-liars figure…and they sway public opinion!

UPDATE: More discussion of this controversial message is going on here as well.