Posted on 10/31/2004 8:41:06 AM PST by Oblongata
Sorry for the Vanity, but the Media and the Kerry campaign keep trumpeting the increasing death toll. It seems to me things got better this month, though yesterday may have changed that.
I have searched for this info but been unsuccessful. Does anyone have a good source for numbers?
Fewer and fewer terrorists are surviving each week.
They are being picked off by snipers by the hundreds.
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days 10-2004 65 1 2 68 2.19 31 9-2004 80 3 4 87 2.9 30
1 is to many.....but that is the price we pay.
Good, that's exactly what I suspected. If yesterday wasn't so unfortunate, we would have a more than 25% drop. Now I'm just waiting for the media to say something about this.
In a word, the question and this thread is sick.
The mortality rate of those serving in Iraq is 2 per day, the under 65 mortality rate in the US is 4. You won't hear that any more than you'll hear about the drop in casualties this month.
Some might see it that way. I, and everyone here, mourn the loss of every soldier.
But the true disgusting fact is that the Media and much of the public use these numbers as the sole basis of whether we are winning or not. A reduction helps the cause here at home.
Yes, It was less than in September.
And less than August.
And less than July as well until the unfortunate car bombing of the Marine truck killed 8 (near Fallujah) on the last day of October.
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You mean you mourn because the numbers (not the deaths) are up and salivate when the numbers are low.
Would you be asking the same question for the same reason if a Democrat was in office?...I thought so...hence, it's a sick question.
I also think that 'counting' the dead is morbid, especially if they are our own. Yet, I can't help but feel if the totals were increasing, the MSM would be carrying that banner as proof our policies were wrong. We've got enough dead....we've got over 3000 of them from 9/11. The only dead that I want to see are those M'fer's that pray to Allah!
I think you're reading a little too much into this. I mourn when the numbers are up, and feel better when they are low. I've been to Iraq, and I know those numbers each translate into a father, a daughter, or any number of individual people. I've been on FR a while, and I don't think that anyone here really looks at is like they're simple economic or polling figures.
I know for a fact that there are some Americans who mourn because the numbers are down and salivate when the numbers are high. Personally, I reserve my ire for them.
Thanks, I agree.
I will just ask this: what useful purpose does this vanity post serve?
Have you noticed that when stupid charges are made and ignored they sink like an anchor and never heard from again? Why do you feel compelled to keep the topic alive?
Because Kerry foolishly used combat fatalities as a campaign issue during the debates. It would be nice to see some pressure put on him by us and the media to admit casualties are declining.
That is why Kerrey's monumentally immature and stupid question is so egregious: "How would you like your child to be the last one to die in a useless war?"
D'Oh!
about the same as if she were the first.
and it wouldn't matter if it was a useless war or the most clearly noble one. A parent's pain in boundless.
Qualifying it in a most trivial and stupid way does not alter it one iota.
Only for the simple-minded on both sides.
A thoroughly useless excersise!
That plays directly into his hands. He wants to discuss body counts; he wants to discuss "winning the peace". Both monumentally sick red herrings. Why would anyone want to play his game? If he is totally ignored he looks like the fool that he is.
Well then, I'm sorry we're all so simple minded. No one's forcing you to sit here and converse with us half-wits.
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