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Check this out very interesting.
A perspective you will not get from the MSM (main stream media)
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A perspective you will not get from the MSM (main stream media)
Military Losses 1980 -- 2007
Whatever your politics, however you lean and
however you feel about the Bush administration,
this report is interesting.
As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is,
consider the following statistics:
The annual fatalities, by any cause, of military members while
actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:
1980 -- 2,392 (Carter)
1981 -- 2,380 (Reagan)
1984 -- 1,999 (Reagan)
1988 -- 1,819 (Reagan)
1989 -- 1,636 (George H W)
1990 -- 1,508 (George H W)
1991 -- 1,787 (George H W)
1992 -- 1,293 (George H W)
1993 -- 1,213 (Clinton)
1994 -- 1,075 (Clinton)
1995 -- 2,465 (Clinton)
1996 -- 2,318 (Clinton)
1997 -- 817 (Clinton)
1998 -- 2,252 (Clinton)
1999 -- 1,984 (Clinton)
2000 -- 1,983 (Clinton)
2001 -- 890 (George W)
2002 -- 1,007 (George W)
2003 -- 1,410 (George W)
2004 -- 1,887 (George W)
2005 -- 919 (George W)
2006 -- 920 (George W)
2007 -- 899 (George W)
Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,107 deaths
George W years (2001-2007): 7,932 deaths
Are you surprised when you look at these figures?
They indicate the loss from the two latest
Middle East conflicts are less than the loss of
military personnel during Clinton's presidency
when America wasn't even involved in a war --
unless you include Bosnia and Mogadishu, Somalia.
(Remember "Blackhawk Down"?)
Even more surprising is that in 1980,
during Carter's presidency,
there were 2,392 US military fatalities!
These figures appear to indicate many members of
our media and politicians pick and choose the
information on which they report --
that they present only those "facts" that
support their agenda.
Consider the latest census of Americans.
It shows the following distribution of American citizens by race:
European descent 69.12 percent
Hispanic 12.50 percent
Black 12.30 percent
Asian 3.70 percent
Native American 1.00 percent
Other 2.60 percent
Many members of the media lead us to believe the
military death ratio is off-balance compared to the
distribution by race in America.
Here are the fatalities by race over the past
three years in Iraqi Freedom.
European descent 74.31 percent
Hispanic 10.74 percent
Black 9.67 percent
Asian 1.81 percent
Native American 1.09 percent
Other 0.33 percent
Surprised again?
Hopefully, intelligent Americans can decipher --
the facts from the spin,
the spinners from the leaders,
those who seek even more power from those that seek justice,
the dividers from the uniters.
These statistics are published by the
Congressional Research Service and
may be confirmed at:
www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
A perspective you will not get from the MSM (main stream media)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A perspective you will not get from the MSM (main stream media)
Military Losses 1980 -- 2007
Whatever your politics, however you lean and
however you feel about the Bush administration,
this report is interesting.
As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is,
consider the following statistics:
The annual fatalities, by any cause, of military members while
actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:
1980 -- 2,392 (Carter)
1981 -- 2,380 (Reagan)
1984 -- 1,999 (Reagan)
1988 -- 1,819 (Reagan)
1989 -- 1,636 (George H W)
1990 -- 1,508 (George H W)
1991 -- 1,787 (George H W)
1992 -- 1,293 (George H W)
1993 -- 1,213 (Clinton)
1994 -- 1,075 (Clinton)
1995 -- 2,465 (Clinton)
1996 -- 2,318 (Clinton)
1997 -- 817 (Clinton)
1998 -- 2,252 (Clinton)
1999 -- 1,984 (Clinton)
2000 -- 1,983 (Clinton)
2001 -- 890 (George W)
2002 -- 1,007 (George W)
2003 -- 1,410 (George W)
2004 -- 1,887 (George W)
2005 -- 919 (George W)
2006 -- 920 (George W)
2007 -- 899 (George W)
Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,107 deaths
George W years (2001-2007): 7,932 deaths
Are you surprised when you look at these figures?
They indicate the loss from the two latest
Middle East conflicts are less than the loss of
military personnel during Clinton's presidency
when America wasn't even involved in a war --
unless you include Bosnia and Mogadishu, Somalia.
(Remember "Blackhawk Down"?)
Even more surprising is that in 1980,
during Carter's presidency,
there were 2,392 US military fatalities!
These figures appear to indicate many members of
our media and politicians pick and choose the
information on which they report --
that they present only those "facts" that
support their agenda.
Consider the latest census of Americans.
It shows the following distribution of American citizens by race:
European descent 69.12 percent
Hispanic 12.50 percent
Black 12.30 percent
Asian 3.70 percent
Native American 1.00 percent
Other 2.60 percent
Many members of the media lead us to believe the
military death ratio is off-balance compared to the
distribution by race in America.
Here are the fatalities by race over the past
three years in Iraqi Freedom.
European descent 74.31 percent
Hispanic 10.74 percent
Black 9.67 percent
Asian 1.81 percent
Native American 1.09 percent
Other 0.33 percent
Surprised again?
Hopefully, intelligent Americans can decipher --
the facts from the spin,
the spinners from the leaders,
those who seek even more power from those that seek justice,
the dividers from the uniters.
These statistics are published by the
Congressional Research Service and
may be confirmed at:
www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
