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Originally posted by: wrosie
I don't know if this would be true if you factored in the sized of the military in each of the years. But I just don't believe you can just jump to the conclusion that more military personnel died because we were at war.
From Wikipedia: "A total of 4,486 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012". That turns out to be about 448 soldiers per year, less than in every the peacetime year between 1980 and 2002!
I understand that statistics can be manipulated to show just about any viewpoint, I just choose not to waste any more of my time trying to figure this all out. You can't change the past only the future.
Originally posted by: wrosie
I don't know if this would be true if you factored in the sized of the military in each of the years. But I just don't believe you can just jump to the conclusion that more military personnel died because we were at war.
From Wikipedia: "A total of 4,486 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012". That turns out to be about 448 soldiers per year, less than in every the peacetime year between 1980 and 2002!
I understand that statistics can be manipulated to show just about any viewpoint, I just choose not to waste any more of my time trying to figure this all out. You can't change the past only the future.
Deaths are relatively small..
But then there are over 55K wounded.
And over 100K suffering from PTSD. Time
And an average of 2 Iraq/Afghan vet suicides occurring each day. Time again
So theres that...