Originally Posted by cat's meow

calculator right hear...I will do the math, got the formulas fromt he article...



in Vietnam there were roughly:
153,303 seriously wounded
58,000 deaths

Iraq it is 1 for 16

roughly 3200 deaths to date

So does that mean 51,200 (roughly) wounded seriously in Iraq?

Ok, take the math further.

If we take the equivalant of the current war but in Vietnam era medical technology (scenerio) then we would come out with 19,690 dead by this point (at four years). By this time in 1968 there were (1964 being the Tonkin Gulf Resolution):

1964 206
1965 1,863
1966 6,143
1967 11,153
1968 16,592
(from the National Archives)

Close to 20,000-30,000 dead in four years depending on where the time line is ended at a demarkation of four years for both wars...

Seems to not support the far right wing, "hell, this 3000+ does not even compare, real light casualties."

What BS that is...death is death and casualties are casualties and all we are doing is creating more permenantly injured people that have to come back and live their lives. And honestly, we still do not really have a clear picture on what for.