Another GREAT example...
Can you face the truth?
Takes courage...
MILITARY DEATHS FOR TWENTY-SIX YEARS
Here 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 8 Clinton years @13,417 deaths
1997 ............817
1998 ..........2,252
1999 ..........1,984
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2000 ..........1,983
2001........... 890
2002 ..........1,007 7 BUSH years @ 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 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 and 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 agendas?
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 .................... 12.5%
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%
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
(Attached report)
Now ask yourself these two questions:
1. 'Why does the mainstream print and TV media never provide statistics
like
these?'
2. 'Why does 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.
