Iraq Fact

There have been 2,073 US soldiers killed in this Iraq pacification scheme. More than 16,000 US soldiers have been wounded. Thanks to better in the field medical response, better medevac times, and body armor, these wounded soldiers are still alive. If we were still using Vietnam-era technology today, it's a safe bet that those 16,000 wounded would be listed KIA. To put it into perspective, the US lost about 25,000 troops in Vietnam while Johnson was still in office, this number is less than half of the eventual 58,000 who were killed. These 25,000 deaths happened in about 4 years (1964 - 1968), averaging 6,250 deaths per year. We have been in Iraq two years and our mortality rate (assuming many of those wounded would have been killed) is 2,073 + 16,000= 18,073, for a per year average of 9,000. So don't buy that line that the situation in Iraq is less dangerous than it was in Vietnam, or that we're winning this war. See "The Fog Of War" to be reminded how those in power refuse to admit defeat.