The world according to Riff.

iraq war death toll, a little perspective

You know it makes me a little ticked off when I hear the media, especialy CNN, New york times, abc cbs, and the rest of that group, spin their anti-bush-war, demonization campaign, how they harp on the massive death toll of troops in Iraq...Don't get me wrong, I am not trivializing our losses.  I feel ONE death over there is too many. But I hate it when it gets politicised, to further some left wings agenda....They dont giva a damn about the poor dead soldier/s...They care about votes and power, and the war is just a tool for them to work with. Dont let them bullshit ya, just look at a little statistics I skimmed together from cnn and some other sites, and ask your selfs....what are "THEY" doing about this massive death toll???? I feel that they do  nothing due to the fact you cant put a political agenda behind it, you cant blame repubs, or dems...so....read on....riff   U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3963 Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 3 Total 3966 DoD Confirmation List

Latest Coalition Fatality: Feb 19, 2008

The Bottom Line...

An Anthrax Epidemic?
Killed in car accidents	42,116*
Killed by the common flu	20,000*
Killed by murders	15,517*
Killed in airline crashes (of 477m passenger trips)	120 (1)
Killed by lightning strikes	90*
Killed by Anthrax	5
(1) Annual average over 19 year period. *Average annual totals in United States.

Comment(s) »

1. There are no real studies but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to show that more people are killed here at the hands of illegals, every year, than the total of troops we've lost in Iraq. I'm convinced that is an accurate statement. As with you, not trying to in anyway trivialize th death of any of our soldiers. But that's something you'll NEVER hear from the liberal media. The media is ONLY concerned with headlines.

   Comment by Burns— 2008/02/21 @ 01:11 PM — (Reply)

2. would be an intresting study, the total cost of property loss, death and don,t forget police man hours due to illegals and thier activities

   Comment by riffran— 2008/02/22 @ 11:14 AM — (Reply)

» Leave a comment

Name

E-mail

URL

Notify me on new comments.

[ Top level ] #1: Burns on 2008/02/21 11:11 AM#2: riffran on 2008/02/22 09:14 AM — reply to this comment.

Your Comment

Preview:

You say:

To prevent spam, please type in the exact word you see in this image:
To refresh the image, click here. Otherwise, contact us.

• Your E-mail address is never displayed. If you enter it, it will only be visible to the blog author
• Since there already are comments to this post, your eventual comment might trigger a notification e-mail to the persons that commented before you.
• The line and paragraph breaks automatically