Bush's War -Frontline

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Originally Posted by tw

The statistics fail to consider that a same injury rarely causes a death today.

The statistics don't consider anything - they're inanimate.

The statistics reflect a different situation on the ground. There are no "battles" in this "war". Nobody takes on the US forces directly; they know they will lose. So they snipe, they IED, they suicide bomb, they car bomb, they ambush. But nowhere are there battalions of armed forces taking on other battalions of armed forces.

More useful statistic is to compare fatalities then to all casualties today. 4000 deaths in Iraq mean something like 40,000 Vietnam fatalities.

Oh but you're wrong again. US wounded figures 4000 deaths to 30,000 wounded in Iraq. 60,000 dead/lost to 305,000 wounded in Vietnam. 7.5:1 wound:death ratio in Iraq; 5:1 wound:death ratio in Vietnam. Better, but not revolutionary, and not the cause of the "troubling" statistics.

Still to come is a recession created by those war costs.

Oh cool, we can avoid the recession created by the housing bubble. Still, it's always true there are numerous ways to lose, and it is somehow reassuring that we know we can expect tw to find and claim them.