Just so you know...in Iraq 3 US deaths occur a day and that's just in February.
A year ago it was 2 dead a day
The difference is hard to understand from a statistics point of view.
Years ago the annual amortized death rate was 2.07 a day and now over the length of the war it is about 2.34 a day
13 US dead in Afghanistan this year alone.
They hide the caskets. They bury the bad news. So even we in this community don’t really get the sense of al the blood shed in Iraq every single day. We don’t see the tears. We don’t hear the howls. We don’t know the anguish.
We imagine we do. Because war always looks great on a movie screen.
I think it’s important to think about this when our leaders fiddle, and maneuver, and politic.
Don’t me started about civilian casualties.
WASHINGTON — Americans are keenly aware of how many U.S. forces have lost their lives in Iraq, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll. But they woefully underestimate the number of Iraqi civilians who have been killed.
When the poll was conducted earlier this month, a little more than 3,100 U.S. troops had been killed. The midpoint estimate among those polled was right on target, at about 3,000.
Far from a vague statistic, the death toll is painfully real for many Americans. Seventeen percent in the poll know someone who has been killed or wounded in Iraq. And among adults under 35, those closest to the ages of those deployed, 27 percent know someone who has been killed or wounded.
( AP writers Natasha Metzler and Ann Sanner and AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this story that I found on Huff Wires.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... )
This war is distant. It’s architects have successfully kept it anesthetic. The kids who, as a friends says- go to the strip mall and find a recruitment center and swear out an oath to the flag- they’re the ones who bear the costs of this war.
I would suggest every once in a while you visit this website and remind your self of the toll being taken.
http://icasualties.org/...
What this all means is that Americans are dying everyday. And it means US casualties continue to rise. It’s important to keep to he pressure on Congress in every way we can. Maybe we can break through the delusions of a few who would have us stay there for tired, debunked reasons they can hardly express outside of tired debunked talking points.