Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Putting things in perspective

John Hinderaker puts those 1800+ American deaths in Iraq into a perspective that even the liberals can’t ignore.

Well, of course they can, but Hinderaker makes slapping them around so much easier…

Here’s some context: between 1983 and 1996, 18,006 American military personnel died accidentally in the service of their country. That death rate of 1,286 per year exceeds the rate of combat deaths in Iraq by a ratio of nearly two to one.

I knew at least three of them.

h/t Tim