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I find it funny how liberals have been using the deaths of the troops in Iraq or Afganistan to further... [MORE] |
Jeff |
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It's funny that liberals are so bent over this comparison. Apparently any troops who die in combat in Iraq or Afganistan... [MORE] |
Jeff |
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The bottom line is George Bush numbers represent two wars in Afghan and Iraq. Not including the naval support of... [MORE] |
Leonard Nichols |
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Please compare apples to apples. YEAR TOTAL MILITARY TOTAL DEATHS JIMMY CARTER 1980 2,159,630 2,392 RONALD REAGAN 1981 2,206,751 2,3801982 2,251,067 2,3191983 2,273,364... [MORE] |
Ian Rey |
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I was with Hotel 2/5 USMC in Vietnam. Of the American 58,000 fatalities in around 11,000 were non-combat related. If you... [MORE] |
Al Treska |
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Well put. It's nice to see something other than leftist rants or left-leaning, selective reporting actually made the pages of... [MORE] |
Danny J. |
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the prior specific criticisms of the blatant misuse of numbers in ms. colon's piece have made the point. such cowardly... [MORE] |
howard reynolds |
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Great Article!!!! The Democrates will turn-tail and run from a situation or decision as always. Leaving our heros in a... [MORE] |
Cliff |
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Point the first: Colon, in a response to Salon.com, refers to President Clinton as a "media darling." When Clinton's approval... [MORE] |
Douglas Moran |
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Ms. Colon, Do you remember Mark Twains' famous paraphrase of an English prime minister? Allow me to refresh your memory: Figures often... [MORE] |
Pete May |
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More than 3,100 deaths in Iraq. That doesn't include American troops killed in Afghanistan or in terrorist attacks outside Iraq.... [MORE] |
T. Turner |
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Alicia - Your distorted statistics and your warped attitude have made you famous. Do not drag patriotic American veterans such as... [MORE] |
Timbuktom |
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The figure of approximately 3,100 US combat deaths in Iraq applies only to those killed by enemy action in Iraq.... [MORE] |
Roger |
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I hate to inform you of this, or really I don't but those numbers do include the accidents and suicides.... [MORE] |
Proud Iraqi Vet |
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It's amazing what drivel you can come up with when you do just enough research to forward your preconceived notion.... [MORE] |
Gary Laney |
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I think this is one of the most patently intellectually dishonest things I've ever read. The figures cited in the... [MORE] |
John |
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Thank you for thoughts from the other side. It is refreshing to have another perspective that has been researched and... [MORE] |
Beth Dean |
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Dear New York Sun, You owe readers like Shawn Mowry an explanation of how Alicia Colon counted military deaths during Clinton's... [MORE] |
Andrew WK |
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Will you be heroic and courageous enough to write in your next column that the military death rate during the... [MORE] |
Thomas Holaday |
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You have deliberately understated the number of American military dead during the four years 2003-2007. You imply that Rep. John Murtha... [MORE] |
Thomas Holaday |
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Alicia Colon is the coward here. A brave journalist might have tried to make the same points without using only... [MORE] |
Aaron B |
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You are making an utterly meaningless apples and oranges comparison by citing the two sets of death statistics. The Clinton... [MORE] |
Frank Flint |
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Almost all the deaths from '93 through '96 were either from illness, accident, suicide, or homicide. A total of 59... [MORE] |
Christopher Kubasik |
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Dear Alicia, Just a small amount of research shows that ONLY a total of FIFTY-NINE (59) casualties caused during the Clinton... [MORE] |
edwin |
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Don't be cute. Only 59 died of combat related deaths. The rest were accidents, suicides, etc. This piece is shameless. [MORE] |
Dan Craft |
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Your article is intellectually dishonest. Only 59 military deaths between 1993 and 1999 were the result of hostile action. The... [MORE] |
Ellen Pitts |
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How does this HACK Alicia Colon still have a job? What a laughable misrepresentation. Her comparison of "military deaths" in the... [MORE] |
William Markley |
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Probably the most intellectually dishonest piece of reporting I have seen in a long time. You cannot simply compare wartime... [MORE] |
Michael E. |
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If everybody would just go to the Defense Dept. PDF file from which you got your numbers, they would see... [MORE] |
MB White |
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Alicia Colon, That is a hell of an article, with a perspective which shows the greatness of this country on a... [MORE] |
Dan Maguire |
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Blair Glenn |
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According to a Lancet study, 655,000 Iraqis have died as the result of our invasion which is (by all informed... [MORE] |
Bob Meinetz |
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You can believe whatever you want. You can pull any number out of the thin air you like. But when... [MORE] |
Daniel J |
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A violent death is always a tragedy, even worse when it happens with a young person and much worse when... [MORE] |
Pedro Soto |
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This article offers more appropriate context and history than the vast majority of current US Media headlines du jour. This... [MORE] |
Andrew Maffei |
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Colon conveniently overlooks the fact that the military was much larger under in Clinton in the years 1992-1996. The military... [MORE] |
Aileen Frankl-Toole |
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Can you please provide the sourcing for the number of military deaths cited from 1993 to 1996? Thanks. [MORE] |
Matt |
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In response to Mr. Paul Gray's comments : Ms. Colon clearly states in the article she is only discussing the... [MORE] |
Ben |
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I bet you made several enemies in the media with this piece. Thank you for sharing. I had no idea,... [MORE] |
Darrell |
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What a stupid anaylsis. In the years you cite, 1993-1996 - 1 death was due to hostile action, 55 due... [MORE] |
Paul Amirault |
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You are comparing all military deaths under Clinton (including accident, sickness and so on) to just combat fatalities in Iraq.... [MORE] |
Christopher Allen |
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Who's counting? The author surely isn't - not correctly at least. The author compares apples and oranges: the number of... [MORE] |
Joe Bartman |
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I'm curious as to your source for the deaths of military personnel over the various terms. I found the following... [MORE] |
G George |
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Paul states that the numbers in the article don't include none war zone deaths. He's wrong!. The numbers stated in... [MORE] |
T |
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I'll be watching your career with great interest. The world needs journalists like you, as I'm sure you're well aware. -... [MORE] |
Vincent |
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"Cowardly politicians who mock" the sacrifices of the troops? Followed immediately by reference to "Rep. John Murtha." Last I looked, Murtha... [MORE] |
Bryan Bohman |
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Alicia Colon writes: "What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993;... [MORE] |
Brad Arington |
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According to the DOD document the author cites, TOTAL military deaths from ALL causes for the first 4 years of... [MORE] |
Bruce Blazej |
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Even in the absence of combat, there are of course deaths among the hundreds of thousands of US military personnel... [MORE] |
Jeffrey Harris |
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The "war dead" count does not include deaths outside of Iraq - YOU pretend that nobody is dieing in the... [MORE] |
Paul Gray |
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I'm not the one blasting the Iraq dead figures to push any agenda. I use those 1993-1996 to show that... [MORE] |
Alicia Colon |
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The media is presenting the Iraqi war deaths as a huge number, yet this number is almost the same as... [MORE] |
Kirk DeWitt |
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I think Paul is on to something. Check out this link. [MORE] |
numbrcheckr |
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Mr. Gray, Your conclusion is wrong and arguement is fallacious. Go to the Department of Defense and do your research. Ms.... [MORE] |
Dan Maguire |
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Paul, it goes deeper than that. Alicia fails to mention that the total death toll due to hostile enemies during... [MORE] |
Derrick Blaga |
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I I retired after 25 years in the Army and the numbers of dead reported are consistent with my experience. I... [MORE] |
Tibor Lanczy |
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We'll call it the Colon Principle - The more we are at war "over there" . . . somewhere .... [MORE] |
Al Tinsley |
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The Iraq numbers are not peace time numbers.I was in the military, I even photographed a lot of peace time... [MORE] |
Paul Gray |
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and that point is incorrect [MORE] |
Paul Gray |
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As a former paratrooper and combat medic in Vietnam, I am aghast that Alicia Colon mentions the draft dodgers of... [MORE] |
John Hamill |
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You cite all military deaths during the first half of the Clinton administration, including deaths by accident, homicide, suicide and... [MORE] |
Michael Cotter |
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I think that this is a great article. Until now I have never heard those figures with regards to the... [MORE] |
Shawn Mowry |
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The following figures are current for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) as of December 2, 2006: 23,119 Wounded... [MORE] |
John E. Kraft |
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Perhaps the ones who mock our courageous troops' sacrifices are the cowardly leaders who sent them in the first place,... [MORE] |
Druce Vertes |
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Thank you for this wonderful piece. Please keep your voice rising loudly and clearly. Our country needs to hear these... [MORE] |
Judi Vitale |
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That is a powerful piece with which I agree wholeheartedly. I would ask though how many military deaths there have... [MORE] |
Michael Zwick |
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Would someone care to be more specific as to WHERE these numbers of military death during the Clinton administration came... [MORE] |
demtse |
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Great peice, well positioned. However, the problem these days is that facts and perspective don't matter to the main stream... [MORE] |
JP LoBrutto |
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You are by and large counting non-combat deaths during the Clinton administration. The Bush adminstration does not count non-combat related... [MORE] |
Heraldblog |
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Alicia, you are a treasure. Factual, direct, courageous and offering a full meal of facts to mull. And without relying... [MORE] |
Bette Dowdell |
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Mr. Kroboth's view is one reason why every generation of my family has seen military service since the Revolutionary War.... [MORE] |
Mary McLemore |
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The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but The Truth. Great Article, Enjoyed and Researched every word. Thank You. GBU, Vr Derek [MORE] |
rick d sears |
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What an absolute joke of an article. Apples to oranges data to suit an agenda...just appalling. And that people actually... [MORE] |
Vance |
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This article reinforces something I have long said - There is indeed something worse than living in a country that... [MORE] |
Roy E. Terrell |
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You are a breath of fresh air. Thanks for your comments. Some times I wish the decent Americans who do... [MORE] |
Norm Bond |
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I am reminded by your piece of the words of John Stuart Mill, words that I have posted in my... |
Eric Mack |
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I couldn't have written anything I agree with more than what you have written. I love the line...."America is good enough... [MORE] |
Betty Wiggins |
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Only 56 of the 4417 military deaths in Clinton's first four years were in combat. The rest were mainly suicide,... [MORE] |
Robert Cooke |
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If during the Clinton Administration were 4,417 deaths and during this administration just 3,133 then this one has a credit... [MORE] |
Pedro Soto |
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As someone who has both a husband and a son currently serving in the US Military, I feel compelled to... [MORE] |
K. Jossart |
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Dear K. Jossart, Thank you so much for your post. In particular, these words: "I question this administration's handling of Iraq BECAUSE... [MORE] |
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