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Monday, March 20, 2006

3rd Anniversary

As we observe the 3rd anniversary of the US - led invasion of Iraq, I'm once again being reminded by the media (as well as our wonderful Democratic Senators and Congree-people) of the number of brave US men and women who have died as part of this endeavor.

To date, after 3 years, we have lost 2400 brave men and women in combat related fatalities.

To put things into prospective, over the same time period we have lost:


  • 120,000 US citizens in traffic accidents
  • 45,000 US citizens from falls (not water falls, they actually fell and died)
  • 27000 US citizens from poisoning (accidental or otherwise)
  • 12000 US citizens from drowning (it would have been 12001 except I pulled one guy out of the ocean last week)

In addition, from the latest data I could find ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6773700/ ); in just 6 major US cities during 2004 we lost 1975 US citizens from murder.

And of course,

in the matter of an hour we lost 2752 US citizens from the attack on the World Trade Center (http://www.ourcivilisation.com/usa/toll.htm) that incited the US to enter the Global War on Terror in the first place.........
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