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OnyxCougar · 04-25-2005, 12:54 PM

To me it's the same thing. Whether a freak throws a grenade into a tent or a suicide bomber get them or a plane crashes due to sand in the intakes, it's all casualties to me. We shouldn't be there, and our people are dying for someone else's democracy. I have a problem with that.

lookout123 · 04-25-2005, 01:03 PM

my point was that some of those deaths would happen here in the states or wherever their normal training stations are. i remember a few years back a group was running numbers on the death count in KSA in an effort to get us out. they included everything, including the 2 guys who died because they took one of the landcruisers out to the desert and rolled it into a wadi killing themselves, and also the guy who was screwing around and a stack of pallets fell over on him.

three people died. those three deaths had absolutely nothing to do with location, combat, politics, just wars, etc. military duty is a dangerous occupation in many ways. but just being in the wrong place or doing the wrong thing can be dangerous too - just don't use those people in your statistics.

jaguar · 04-25-2005, 01:14 PM

Cryptome have this shit nailed.

OnyxCougar · 04-25-2005, 01:42 PM

*sigh*

lookout123 · 04-25-2005, 02:00 PM

good site jag. like i said before - too many dead blahblahblah. i just want to make sure that we don't start pulling numbers from the air, and we take into account that american servicemen and women die frequently whether we are involved in combat operations or not. i don't like seeing normal deaths attributed to combat, etc.

04-25-2005, 12:54 PM	#46
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	To me it's the same thing. Whether a freak throws a grenade into a tent or a suicide bomber get them or a plane crashes due to sand in the intakes, it's all casualties to me. We shouldn't be there, and our people are dying for someone else's democracy. I have a problem with that. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

04-25-2005, 01:03 PM	#47
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	my point was that some of those deaths would happen here in the states or wherever their normal training stations are. i remember a few years back a group was running numbers on the death count in KSA in an effort to get us out. they included everything, including the 2 guys who died because they took one of the landcruisers out to the desert and rolled it into a wadi killing themselves, and also the guy who was screwing around and a stack of pallets fell over on him. three people died. those three deaths had absolutely nothing to do with location, combat, politics, just wars, etc. military duty is a dangerous occupation in many ways. but just being in the wrong place or doing the wrong thing can be dangerous too - just don't use those people in your statistics. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

04-25-2005, 01:14 PM	#48
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Cryptome have this shit nailed. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

04-25-2005, 01:42 PM	#49
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	sigh __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

04-25-2005, 02:00 PM	#50
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	good site jag. like i said before - too many dead blahblahblah. i just want to make sure that we don't start pulling numbers from the air, and we take into account that american servicemen and women die frequently whether we are involved in combat operations or not. i don't like seeing normal deaths attributed to combat, etc. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

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