The shocking truth about the U.S. Military!

Did you know?

The annual fatalities, by any cause, of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2007:

1980____2,392 (Carter)
1981____2,380 (Reagan)
1984____1,999 (Reagan)
1988____1,819 (Reagan)
1989____1,636 (George H W)
1990____1,508 (George H W)
1991____1,787 (George H W)
1992____1,293 (George H W)
1993____1,213 (Clinton)
1994____1,075 (Clinton)
1995____2,465 (Clinton)
1996____2,318 (Clinton)
1997____0,817 (Clinton)
1998____2,252 (Clinton)
1999____1,984 (Clinton)
2000____1,983 (Clinton)
2001____0,890 (George W)
2002____1,007 (George W)
2003____1,410 (George W)
2004____1,887 (George W)
2005____0,919 (George W)
2006____0,920 (George W)
2007____0,899 (George W)

Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,107 deaths

George W years (2001-2007): 7,932 deaths

Are you surprised when you look at these figures? They indicate the loss from the two latest Middle East conflicts are less than the loss of military personnel during Clinton's presidency when America wasn't even involved in a war--unless you include Bosnia and Mogadishu, Somalia. (Remember Black Hawk Down?) Even more surprising is that in 1980, during Carter presidency, there were 2,392 US military fatalities!

These figures appear to indicate many members of our media and politicians pick and choose the information on which they report--that they present only those "facts" that support their agenda. (Oh, Gosh, Do you think?)

Consider the latest census of Americans. It shows the following distribution of American citizens by race:

European descent 69.12 percent
Hispanic 12.50 percent
Black 12.30 percent
Asian 3.70 percent
Native American 1.00 percent
Other 2.60 percent

Many members of the media lead us to believe the military death ratio is off balanced compared to the distribution by race in America. Here are the fatalities by race over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:

European descent 74.31 percent
Hispanic 10.74 percent
Black 9.67 percent
Asian 1.81 percent
Native American 1.09 percent
Other 0.33 percent

Surprised again?

These statistics are published by the Congressional Research Service and may be confirmed at:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf