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To: epicure who wrote (211520)	1/2/2007 6:00:14 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) of 281500

If you look at the Clinton years, there are considerably more people in the military than now.. Looking at the Defense Manpower Data Center pdf that mjdfl posted: Average active duty miilitary personnel was 1,469,441 over the eight Clinton years compared to 1,407,662 for the first four Bush II years. On this number we see a decline from the Clinton years, but not a big one. Looking at the total military FTE numbers, the Clinton average was 1,599,344, while the first four Bush years average was higher at 1,679,887. What really stands out on the pdf is the long-term downtrend in accidental deaths. The decline is much greater in percentage terms than the reduction in military personnel. One other thing that catches my eye on that pdf is that there's actually a column for "terrorist attack". What's the difference between that column and "hostile action"? It's that we took casulties and our leaders didn't fight back. So you see deaths from terrorist attack not accompanied or directly followed by hostile actions. That's opposed to the reason why you have a military in the first place.

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