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To: epicure who wrote (211431)	1/1/2007 7:20:26 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Military field medicine is really improving so that the number dead doesn't take into consideration those who, in earlier years, might have died but who were saved and are debilitated for life. I remembering hearing that Clinton may have lost 1 or 2 individuals in the field during his administration but I thought that was due to an accident in the field. This is a typical rightwing argument style. A few years ago Hannity, I believe it was, tried to compare deaths of US troops in Iraq to deaths of Californians. He used total deaths among 130,000 troops in Iraq as a direct comparison to total deaths among 35,000,000 people in California and tried to say Iraq was no more dangerous than California.

To: epicure who wrote (211431)	1/1/2007 8:38:21 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

windsofchange.net I forgot about Somalia so add that to Clinton's watch. Also, Bush stats don't cite CONTRACTORS deaths. We have around 140,000 US military personnel in Iraq but the number of contractors varies widely from as low as 40,000 to as high as 100,000. So, if the info is correct: 1. The military is smaller under Bush. 2. There is a huge improvement in field medicine so many people survive what they would not have survived even ten years ago. 3. There are many more contractors under Bush. 4. The number of accidents have been halved. Now that is a piece of good news if that's correct. 5. Without Iraq 3000 families would be celebrating the New Year much more happily.