Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Some Numbers That Should Be Considered

The war in Iraq is 2 and a half years old. We have declared mission accomplished, and have worked to get the Iraqi people in a position to take care of themselves. In doing that we have now lost 2,000 troops in Iraq.

2,000 troops in about 30 months. For perspective consider this;

In Vietnam, the first four years of the war (61-65) only 1,800 were killed, and in the last two years of Vietnam (71,72) only 1,600 US troops were killed.

To date, Iraq has been more bloody that Vietnam, and the medical advances have created a situation where far more battle casualties are surviving major injuries that would have been deadly 40 years ago.

Just another warning of where we are headed in Iraq.


UPDATE

There will be services or Vigils to honor those who have died. If you are so moved check with your local Quaker Meeting House, or the Move on vigil locator

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I din't know that the death count was so slow to grow.

I don't think the people of Iraq can be as good at war as the Vietnamiese, so we should not see 50,000 dead

nffcnnr said...

and how many of those deaths occured AFTER Bush declared victory, and that major combat operations were over?
2000 minus 140 = 1,860
Mission Accomplished.
awesomeometer

Lynne said...

Wow, that is sobering.

enigma4ever said...

Very worrisome...and yet never mentioned by the MSM...if this is mission accomplished what will it look like when it's a Heckuva -a-Job..? Or are we already there ? sad and needless....