Comparing military casualty figures

Red State has an interesting post up today regarding military casualties.

Lies, Damn Lies, and (MSM) Statistics

By: Proud Kaffir · Section: Diaries

On the third anniversay of the Iraq war, the MSM keeps bombarding us with stories and statistics trying to compare this war to the carnage in Vietnam, trying to make us think that US soldiers are dying at an alarming number due to Bush's failures.

While every lost serviceman and servicewoman is certainly tragic and should be mourned, the actual statistics tell quite a different tale from the MSM and Democratic doom-and-gloom outlook. Comparing the numbers of lost US military personnel to past years, and past presidential terms, may even be a shock to supporters of the war.

Take a look at the actual US Military Casualty figures since 1980. If you do the math, you wil find quite a few surpises.  First of all, let's compare numbers of US Military personnel that died during the first term of the last four presidents.

George W. Bush . . .  . . 5187  (2001-2004)
Bill  Clinton . . . . . . . . . 4302  (1993-1996) 
George H.W. Bush . . . . 6223  (1989-1992)
Ronald Reagan . . . . . .  9163  (1981-1984)

[READ MORE Check out some of the convoluted comments too.]

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Be sure to check out the UPDATES at Instapundit for some astute comments on the statistics.

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Casualty Resource

Related from The Squiggler archives:

Perspective on U.S. War Casualties - Updated

Conflict	Combat	Other	Wounded	Total
Revolutionary War	4,435	*	6,188	10,623
War of 1812	2,260	*	4,505	6,765
Mexican War	1,733	11,550	4,152	17,435
Civil War: Union                Confederate                Combined	110,070 74,524 184,594	249,458 124,000 373,458	275,175 137,000+ 412,175+	634,703 335,524 970,227
Spanish-American War	385	2,061	1,662	4,108
World War I	53,513	63,195	204,002	320,710
World War II	292,131	115,185	670,846	1,078,162
Korean War	33,651	*	103,284	136,935
Vietnam War	47,369	10,799	153,303	211,471
Gulf War	148	145	467^	760
War in Iraq (as of Mar-2006)	2,328		17,004	^
War Against the Unborn				40,000,000+

Conflict	Combat	Other	Wounded	Total
Revolutionary War	4,435	*	6,188	10,623
War of 1812	2,260	*	4,505	6,765
Mexican War	1,733	11,550	4,152	17,435
Civil War: Union                Confederate                Combined	110,070 74,524 184,594	249,458 124,000 373,458	275,175 137,000+ 412,175+	634,703 335,524 970,227
Spanish-American War	385	2,061	1,662	4,108
World War I	53,513	63,195	204,002	320,710
World War II	292,131	115,185	670,846	1,078,162
Korean War	33,651	*	103,284	136,935
Vietnam War	47,369	10,799	153,303	211,471
Gulf War	148	145	467^	760
War in Iraq (as of Mar-2006)	2,328		17,004	^
War Against the Unborn				40,000,000+

Conflict	Combat	Other	Wounded	Total
Revolutionary War	4,435	*	6,188	10,623
War of 1812	2,260	*	4,505	6,765
Mexican War	1,733	11,550	4,152	17,435
Civil War: Union                Confederate                Combined	110,070 74,524 184,594	249,458 124,000 373,458	275,175 137,000+ 412,175+	634,703 335,524 970,227
Spanish-American War	385	2,061	1,662	4,108
World War I	53,513	63,195	204,002	320,710
World War II	292,131	115,185	670,846	1,078,162
Korean War	33,651	*	103,284	136,935
Vietnam War	47,369	10,799	153,303	211,471
Gulf War	148	145	467^	760
War in Iraq (as of Mar-2006)	2,328		17,004	^
War Against the Unborn				40,000,000+