I found some interesting statistics the other day. Below is a list of deaths per year in our Military. My heart goes out to all of the families that gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Thanks to the poster for revealing a pasting error. The figures come from page 10.
1980-2,392…..1981-2,380…..1982-2,319…..1983-2,465
1984-1,999…..1985-2,252…..1986-1,984…..1987-1,983
1988-1,819…..1989-1,636…..1990-1,507…..1991-1,787
1992-1,293…..1993-1,213…..1994-1,075…..1995-1,040
1996-974…….1997-817…….1998-827…….1999-796
2000-758…….2001-891…….2002-999…….2003-1,228
2004-1,874…..2005-1,942…..2006-1,858
You may initially feel confused when you look at these figures –especially when you see that in 1980, during the term of President Jimmy Carter, there were 2,392 US military fatalities. What this clearly indicates is that our media and our liberal politicians pick and choose and tend to present only those facts that support their agenda driven reporting. Another fact our left media and politicians like to slant is that these brave men and women losing their lives are minorities. Wrong again - Iraqi Freedom Fatalities over March 2003-June 2007 appear similar to our population breakdown. Regardless of how we crunch these numbers, we must remember that these figures represent the life of a son or daughter that gave up our their life for our freedom. (from page 22):
American Indian or Alaska Native………..259……1.00%
Asian………………………………..227……0.88%
African American……………………2,1108……..17%
Hispanic or Latino…………………..1,682……6.51%
Multiple races, pending, or unknown……2,377……9.20%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander……..146……0.57%
White……………………………..18,919…..73.24%
Total 25,830
Great Post, Senator! These figures are amazing - although one military death is too many. I had a friend killed by the terrorist in the Beirut barracks back in 1980’s. Keep up the good work! JD
I am confused, because the document you posted contains totally different numbers than your post. In the document, from page 10, “Table 4. U.S. Active Duty Military Deaths, 1980 Through 2006,
Part I, Total Military Personnel” it shows: 2003 = 1,228, 2004 = 1,874, 2005 = 1,942, 2006 = 1,858.
I guess your point is that even though we have a war in Iraq that US military fatalities are lessening?
I would argue more to the point that the reason we have military deaths as a result of the Iraq war are totally unessary and could have been avoided entirely, given that our beef was with Osama’s gang and not Husseins at that particular moment on 9/11….
Senator, can you explain the discrepancy between the numbers in your post and the document? Where did the first numbers come from if they didn’t come from the document you posted? Did they come from the DOD and the other demographics numbers came from the CRS document? Do you have the DOD document? If the DOD and the CRS have wildly different numbers, then what does that say about the ‘left media’? Are you picking numbers you like from one place and ignoring them from others?
You are a moron… Anyone can make up numbers…I think you are a piece of shit for trying to justify the loss of US lives in IRAQ like this….
Here’s The Truth:
Whoever assembled this eRumor claimed that it was based on statistics from the U.S. Government, but the figures in the eRumor do not match the figures in the actual government report it references.
The eRumor includes a link to the report, which was dated June 29, 2007, and prepared by the Congressional Research Service. It is titled American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics.
Whoever created this forwarded email exaggerated the death statistics from the Clinton years and reduced the actual numbers from the Bush years. The eRumor, for example. claims that there were more than 14,000 deaths during the Clinton presidency and a little more than 7,000 deaths during the presidency of George W. Bush. In reality the opposite is true. There were 7500 military deaths during the Clinton years and as of the date of the report, 8792 deaths during the Bush presidency.
Here is a comparison of what the email claims compared with with the government report actually says:
The doctored data were from the Clinton and George W. Bush years so that is the focus of this comparison. The discrepancies are in red:
Year eRumor
Figures Actual
Figures Presidency
1993 1213 1213 Clinton
1994 1075 1075 Clinton
1995 2465 1040 Clinton
1996 2318 974 Clinton
1997 817 817 Clinton
1998 2252 827 Clinton
1999 1984 796 Clinton
2000 1983 758 Clinton
Totals: 14107 7500
2001 890 891 George W. Bush
2002 1007 999 George W. Bush
2003 1410 1228 George W. Bush
2004 1887 1874 George W. Bush
2005 919 1942 George W. Bush
2006 920 1858 George W. Bush
Totals: 7033 8792
The eRumor also says that there were more deaths during the year 1980 in the Carter years than the worst year under George W. Bush. Even with the corrected figures, that appears to be true. There were 2392 deaths in 1980 and the highest number of deaths during any given year at the time of the date of the report were 1942 in 2005.