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"Charles Farley" |
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27 Aug 2006 02:06:00 AM |
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US Troops Safer in Iraq Than in U.S. |
The Washington Post
August 26, 2006; Page A21
Service in Iraq: Just How Risky?
By Samuel H. Preston and Emily Buzzell
The consequences of Operation Iraqi Freedom for U.S. forces are being
documented by the Defense Department with an exceptional degree of
openness and transparency. Its daily and cumulative counts of deaths
receive a great deal of publicity. But deaths alone don't indicate the
risk for an individual. For this purpose, the number of deaths must be
compared with the number of individuals exposed to the risk of death.
The Defense Department has supplied us with appropriate data on
exposure, and we take advantage of it to provide the first profile of
military mortality in Iraq.
Between March 21, 2003, when the first military death was recorded in
Iraq, and March 31, 2006, there were 2,321 deaths among American troops
in Iraq. Seventy-nine percent were a result of action by hostile
forces. Troops spent a total of 592,002 "person-years" in Iraq during
this period. The ratio of deaths to person-years, .00392, or 3.92
deaths per 1,000 person-years, is the death rate of military personnel
in Iraq.
How does this rate compare with that in other groups? One meaningful
comparison is to the civilian population of the United States. That
rate was 8.42 per 1,000 in 2003, more than twice that for military
personnel in Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082500940.html
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| User: "PagCal" |
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| Title: Re: US Troops Safer in Iraq Than in U.S. |
27 Aug 2006 04:13:52 AM |
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Charles Farley wrote:
The Washington Post
August 26, 2006; Page A21
Service in Iraq: Just How Risky?
You took the quote out of context. If you read the next paragraph, you
would have seen:
"The comparison is imperfect, of course, because a much higher fraction
of the American population is elderly and subject to higher death rates
from degenerative diseases. The death rate for U.S. men ages 18 to 39 in
2003 was 1.53 per 1,000 -- 39 percent of that of troops in Iraq."
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| User: "Taylor" |
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| Title: Re: US Troops Safer in Iraq Than in U.S. |
27 Aug 2006 02:10:06 PM |
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"PagCal" <pagcal@runbox.com> wrote in message
news:kndIg.353$md5.335@newsfe02.lga...
Charles Farley wrote:
The Washington Post
August 26, 2006; Page A21
Service in Iraq: Just How Risky?
You took the quote out of context. If you read the next paragraph, you
would have seen:
"The comparison is imperfect, of course, because a much higher fraction of
the American population is elderly and subject to higher death rates from
degenerative diseases. The death rate for U.S. men ages 18 to 39 in 2003
was 1.53 per 1,000 -- 39 percent of that of troops in Iraq."
Death rate for all persons on earth: 100%.
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| User: "Nostrafuckingdamus" |
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| Title: Re: US Troops Safer in Iraq Than in U.S. |
27 Aug 2006 03:39:30 AM |
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On 27 Aug 2006 00:06:00 -0700, Charles Farley wrote:
The Washington Post
August 26, 2006; Page A21
Service in Iraq: Just How Risky?
By Samuel H. Preston and Emily Buzzell
The consequences of Operation Iraqi Freedom for U.S. forces are being
documented by the Defense Department with an exceptional degree of
openness and transparency. Its daily and cumulative counts of deaths
receive a great deal of publicity. But deaths alone don't indicate the
risk for an individual. For this purpose, the number of deaths must be
compared with the number of individuals exposed to the risk of death.
The Defense Department has supplied us with appropriate data on
exposure, and we take advantage of it to provide the first profile of
military mortality in Iraq.
Between March 21, 2003, when the first military death was recorded in
Iraq, and March 31, 2006, there were 2,321 deaths among American troops
in Iraq. Seventy-nine percent were a result of action by hostile
forces. Troops spent a total of 592,002 "person-years" in Iraq during
this period. The ratio of deaths to person-years, .00392, or 3.92
deaths per 1,000 person-years, is the death rate of military personnel
in Iraq.
How does this rate compare with that in other groups? One meaningful
comparison is to the civilian population of the United States. That
rate was 8.42 per 1,000 in 2003, more than twice that for military
personnel in Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082500940.html
You worthless motherfuckers can make a statistic say anything. 2600
statistics aren't lying in early graves *****-for-brains. How dare you or
anyone refer to those good people that way.
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