I thought this was of interest & I had no clue this could even be true based on all the media hype. Like the game, will the "DEM" appear by the scandal story; will the media report that military deaths now are lower than under the much media loved CARTER?

http://www.ncpa.org/... [1]

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS BELOW 26-YEAR AVERAGE

Despite suffering 4,000 deaths in Iraq, annual U.S. military casualties overall during the first six years of the Bush administration are well below the average for the 26-year period beginning in 1980, according to World Net Daily (WDN).

Even in 2005, the deadliest year of the Iraq campaign, U.S. troop fatalities around the world, including Afghanistan, were lower than the first nine years of the study -- when the Cold War was still raging in a time of relative peace:

In 2005, a total of 1,942 U.S. military personnel were killed in all causes, including accidents, hostile action, homicides, illnesses, suicides, etc.
That compares to 2,392 in 1980, the last year of President Jimmy Carter's administration.
In fact, twice as many U.S. military personnel were killed in accidents in that one year than were killed in hostile actions in any year of the Bush administration.
Despite a major increase in deaths due to hostile actions beginning in 2003 with the advent of the Iraq war, the annual toll on U.S. troops did not skyrocket above peacetime norms, according to the Department of Defense. For instance, in 1993, the first year of the peacetime Clinton administration, 1,293 U.S. servicemen lost their lives -- just 649 fewer than in 2005, the hottest year of the Iraq war.

Source: "U.S. Military Deaths Below 26-Year Average," World Net Daily, April 25, 2008.

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