still no source. And, to be comparable, it would have to include whatever is the comparable “total military deaths” (training, accidents, heart attacks, whatever) that the clinton year numbers were. I don’t doubt that the spread between the two administrations would be less than some people thnk, but it will still be visible. The Iraq war isn’t just “statistical noise.” That cheapens the real sacrifices made — and isn’t accurate.
Anyways, this is about countering leftist media lies. The MSM and the Left are well on their way to cementing Iraq and Afghanistan as failure and those that fought as failures. Sorry, but it is what they are doing and when kids go to Google it in five, twenty years, the'll just get piles of lefty hits, and they believe it because their lefty teachers told them so.
The Congressional Research Service, which compiled war casualty statistics from the Revolutionary War to present day conflicts, reported that 4,699 members of the U.S. military died in 1981 and ‘82 — a period when the U.S. had only limited troop deployments to conflicts in the Mideast. That number of deaths is nearly 900 more than the 3,800 deaths during 2005 and ‘06, when the U.S. was fully committed to large-scale military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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According to the raw figures, of the 2,380 members of the military who died during active duty in 1981, 1,524 were killed in accidents, 145 by homicide, 457 by illness and 241 from self-inflicted wounds. That compares with the 1,942 killed in 2005; of that number, 632 died from accidents, 739 from hostile action, 49 from homicide, 281 from illness, 150 from self-inflicted wounds and 72 whose causes of death were still pending. Eleven deaths in ’81 and 19 deaths in ’05 were classified as “undetermined.”
Government Report: More Military Deaths in Some Years of Peace Than War
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311644,00.html