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Old 03-29-2008, 01:59 PM   #42
Undertoad
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For every eight killed by their wounds in Vietnam, only 1 die from those wounds in [the current conflict].
Assuming that you are correct, that would tell us that Iraq is both less deadly AND less violent than Vietnam.

As I have posted, there were 305,000 wounded in Vietnam, and 30,000 wounded in Iraq. Wounding more deadly in Vietnam; wounding ten times as likely in Vietnam; death fifteen times as likely in Vietnam.

Miracle armor? Or is the situation on the ground much different? Apply Occam's Razor.

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Irrelevant is how emotional you become.
Precisely. I am correct by the facts... both the facts I present and the facts you present.
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