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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
There are 140,000 American troops in Iraq. 6,916 of them have been injured in fighting (and 975 of them killed, for a total of 7,891 total casualties, but for now let's just concentrate on the walking/rolling wounded). For those of you keeping score at home, that's one out of twenty eligible for Purple Heart consideration.
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Point of order. Can we agree that the 7000 casualties have been distributed among waaay more than the 140000 American troops who may or may not currently be in Iraq? For instance, units who went and came back? Say, for example, that 280000 have been in-country. For those of you keeping score at home, that's one out of forty eligible for Purple Heart consideration.
On the other hand, some units, like the Marines who got into all that shit in Fallujah a few montha ago, have suffered greatly disproportionate casualties.
Now what else were you saying?
