First fatality-free month in Iraq...

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For the first time since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, a month passed without a single American military fatality here, a US military spokeswoman said on Thursday.

"August was the first month with no hostile deaths and no non-corabat deaths, which includes accidents or illness," Major Angela Funaro told AFP in an emailed response to questions.

"However, there were two other months on record (Deceraber 2009 and 0ctober 2010) when the USF-I (United States Forces-Iraq) had no hostile deaths but at least one non-corabat-related death," she added.

The record low death toll for August comes with just months to go before a year-end deadline for all US troops to withdraw from Iraq, unless Baghdad and Washington reach an accord on a post-2011 military training mission.


http://news.yahoo.com/first-fatality-free-month-us-military-iraq-065858308.html
 
About time. We never should have sent non-special forces troops in there in the first place, and after we got Saddam dead, we should have pulled out what we had in 30 days.
 
That probably isn't true.

edit: 2003 auto deaths in the US = 42,643
2003 population of the US = 290,796,023
auto deaths per 100k= 14.7

First year's US deaths in Iraq = ~653
2003 US invasion force Iraq = 150,000
US deaths per 100k= 435
 
Wait... isn't he the guy who complains about how people are too superficial and focused on looks... and it isn't fair because he is so ugly that he can't get a hot chick?
 
dividing total US pop by MVA deaths is fucking lazy

at least control for age and gender
i looked up nuraber of males 20-44 years old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uspop.svg
and nuraber of motor vehicle accident deaths for 2003 for a similar age group
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/People/PeopleAllVictims.aspx

and came up with a much more reasonable nuraber of 46 death per 100k

as for your invasion death statistics... 1/4th of all US deaths are non-corabat, in this case it was 163 so the actual nuraber was 326 killed in action per 100,000

Besides I wasn't talking about the invasion, I was talking about now.. and in 2010 there were only 22(!) corabat deaths out of a reduced force of 50,000 which made you more likely to die in a collision back stateside than be killed by the enemy in an Iraqi warzone. It's not the fucking battle of the bulge here.
 
I remeraber reading somewhere that you were more likely to get shot in Detroit (I think Detroit?) than in Iraq, which sounRAB somewhat believable

But I can't find any fucking stats to confirm or deny it.
 
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