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To: Peter Andrew Conservative

http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/ByMonth.aspx

Of course there is a body count.
It never quit.
It just is not highlighted by most of the press these days since we lose more people to motorcycle accidents than to combat.
That became true in 2008 and now KIA is not even in the top 10 causes of military personnel deaths.


29 posted on 07/06/2010 2:46:33 PM PDT by DJ Elliott (USN (Ret))
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To: DJ Elliott
That became true in 2008 and now KIA is not even in the top 10 causes of military personnel deaths.

Leading up to the 2004 election, about 1/3 of the US deaths were non-hostile/non-combat. The first death was on base in Kuwait if I recall (things like forklift accidents).

The Left trumpeted deaths, not service. They dead soldiers were as much a pawn as Cindy Sheehan was a pawn. She thought the DNC actually "cared" about the deaths. Now they (and she) are just an inconvenience.

31 posted on 07/07/2010 7:10:56 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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