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2007-11-06 Home Front: Politix

AP : 2007 Is Deadliest Year for US in Iraq

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-06 09:12|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Notice, the downturn in violence and other casualties are not reported. This however is.

Rope. Tree. Journalist.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-11-06 10:55|| 2007-11-06 10:55|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the kind of ~~news~~ commentary we should welcome. Even the most ignorant Oprah fan will recognize this as an outrageous misrepresentation and subesquently question the author's credibility. Keep it up, diummies.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-06 11:06|| 2007-11-06 11:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I miss times when there were reporters in news biz. Now it's just journos in media biz, reporters went almost extinct.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-11-06 11:21|| http://www.twobyfour.nfo/]">[http://www.twobyfour.nfo/] 2007-11-06 11:21|| Front Page Top

#4 All that's missing is "quagmire".

Posted by danking70 2007-11-06 12:55|| 2007-11-06 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 This week seems to have had a number of deadly attacks against us - more than the past few months. Statistics? Complacency? Re-establishment of effective cell networks? There have been a LOT of seemingly successful raids, caches found, etc., but obviously some key players are still on the loose.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-11-06 13:33|| 2007-11-06 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Teevee news last night covered the funeral of a 52-year old DC National Guardsman, killed by a roadside bomb after only 9 days in theater. He was a father of 6, granddad of 2.

:(

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-11-06 14:06|| 2007-11-06 14:06|| Front Page Top

#7 They continue to count the non-hostile deaths.

When you're working with numbers this small, it doesn't take much to cause a blip. One attack that kills 5 Americans could be a 12% increase month over month.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-11-06 14:17|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-11-06 14:17|| Front Page Top

#8 This sort of reporting is one of the major reasons there is a steady decline in newspaper circulation. People just don't trust what they read in the paper has any relation to facts.

Posted by RWV 2007-11-06 14:20|| 2007-11-06 14:20|| Front Page Top

#9 And the deadliest year in the Pacific was the last one if I recall correctly. Clearing the Philippines, Okinawa, Iwo Jima weren't walkovers. Which would have been dwarfed by a direct assault upon the home islands had not fate intervened in the form of another option.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-06 16:42|| 2007-11-06 16:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually, alot depends on what happens in Nov. and Dec. But if the current downtrend in casualties continues, the casualty rate in 2007 will be signifantly less than they were in 2006.

Once you take the larger number of combat troops in 2007 into account, the casualty rate per 1000 troops is down from last year.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-11-06 19:12|| 2007-11-06 19:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh, for even just a little perspective:

[Vietnam War] US Military Battle Deaths By Year:

Prior to 1966 - 3,078 (Total up through 31 Dec 65)
1966 - 5,008
1967 - 9,378
1968 - 14, 589 (Total while JFK & LBJ were on watch - 32,053)
1969 - 9,414
1970 - 4,221
1971 - 1,381
1972 - 300 (Total while Nixon was on watch - 15,316)

Source of these numbers is the Southeast Asia Statistical Summary, Office of the Assistant Secretary or Defense and were provided to the author by the US Army War College Library, Carlisle Barracks, PA 17023.

Numbers are battle deaths only and do not include ordinary accidents, heart attacks, murder victims, suicides, etc.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-06 19:33|| 2007-11-06 19:33|| Front Page Top

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