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	<title>Comments on: Military Casualties &#8211; Who is really the Warmonger?</title>
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		<title>By: a helpful squirrel</title>
		<link>http://www.thebisch.com/archives/2008/09/who-is-the-warmonger/comment-page-1/#comment-6747</link>
		<dc:creator>a helpful squirrel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right, so three things here.

1. Thanks for fixing the numbers, instead of, say, deleting my post.  That (and I mean this without sarcasm) was generous, particularly as I am posting relatively anonymously.

2.  As for posting anonymously... well, I don&#039;t know.  Doesn&#039;t seem like a big deal.  What&#039;s the difference if you know my blog address or even my name?  We still don&#039;t know each other and will most likely never meet.  Plus I&#039;m usually kinder with my comments than &quot;umm wrong&quot; which was rather snarky and maybe even mean, so I think I&#039;ll stick to disassociating these comments from my internet persona.

3. Back to the original point of your post, which was, I believe from the title, &quot;Who is really the Warmonger?&quot;:

It seems to me that a more accurate measure of Warmongering would be total combat deaths, not total deaths (the vast majority of which are, particularly in peacetime, “accident”). I suggest combining the totals for “hostile action” and “terrorist attack” to give you combat deaths. Using that metric the numbers are:

1993-2000: 76
2001-2006: 2733

I think those numbers speak for themselves and “Who is really the Warmonger?” should be clear. (Which, obviously, does not prove that said Warmonger was wrong to Mong a War).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right, so three things here.</p>
<p>1. Thanks for fixing the numbers, instead of, say, deleting my post.  That (and I mean this without sarcasm) was generous, particularly as I am posting relatively anonymously.</p>
<p>2.  As for posting anonymously&#8230; well, I don&#8217;t know.  Doesn&#8217;t seem like a big deal.  What&#8217;s the difference if you know my blog address or even my name?  We still don&#8217;t know each other and will most likely never meet.  Plus I&#8217;m usually kinder with my comments than &#8220;umm wrong&#8221; which was rather snarky and maybe even mean, so I think I&#8217;ll stick to disassociating these comments from my internet persona.</p>
<p>3. Back to the original point of your post, which was, I believe from the title, &#8220;Who is really the Warmonger?&#8221;:</p>
<p>It seems to me that a more accurate measure of Warmongering would be total combat deaths, not total deaths (the vast majority of which are, particularly in peacetime, “accident”). I suggest combining the totals for “hostile action” and “terrorist attack” to give you combat deaths. Using that metric the numbers are:</p>
<p>1993-2000: 76<br />
2001-2006: 2733</p>
<p>I think those numbers speak for themselves and “Who is really the Warmonger?” should be clear. (Which, obviously, does not prove that said Warmonger was wrong to Mong a War).</p>
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		<title>By: TheBisch</title>
		<link>http://www.thebisch.com/archives/2008/09/who-is-the-warmonger/comment-page-1/#comment-6746</link>
		<dc:creator>TheBisch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yep, you&#039;re right... I didn&#039;t check all the numbers, just the first few years to make sure it wasn&#039;t a fake.  I got the information in an email from what I thought was a reliable source.  I have gone back and updated my post.  The numbers now are ummm.. right.  Still interesting though.

I wonder though, why are you hiding?  Are you not man enough (or woman enough) to post your real information?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, you&#8217;re right&#8230; I didn&#8217;t check all the numbers, just the first few years to make sure it wasn&#8217;t a fake.  I got the information in an email from what I thought was a reliable source.  I have gone back and updated my post.  The numbers now are ummm.. right.  Still interesting though.</p>
<p>I wonder though, why are you hiding?  Are you not man enough (or woman enough) to post your real information?</p>
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		<title>By: a helpful squirrel</title>
		<link>http://www.thebisch.com/archives/2008/09/who-is-the-warmonger/comment-page-1/#comment-6745</link>
		<dc:creator>a helpful squirrel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You might want to click the link you&#039;ve provided... your facts are, ummm, wrong.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You might want to click the link you&#8217;ve provided&#8230; your facts are, ummm, wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: Concrete Angel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Concrete Angel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Military Casualties - Who is really the Warmonger?...&lt;/strong&gt;

Re-posting with permission from TheBisch.com
Whatever your politics, however you lean and however you feel about the current administration, this report is interesting. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the below s...</description>
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<p>Re-posting with permission from TheBisch.com<br />
Whatever your politics, however you lean and however you feel about the current administration, this report is interesting. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the below s&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Salena</title>
		<link>http://www.thebisch.com/archives/2008/09/who-is-the-warmonger/comment-page-1/#comment-6739</link>
		<dc:creator>Salena</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Like Rick, I&#039;m probably going to re-post as well, if that&#039;s ok with you. I had no idea and am shocked. Thank you for sharing this info.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like Rick, I&#8217;m probably going to re-post as well, if that&#8217;s ok with you. I had no idea and am shocked. Thank you for sharing this info.</p>
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		<title>By: Ricks View of the World</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ricks View of the World</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Military Casualties - Who is really the Warmonger?...&lt;/strong&gt;

I grabbed this from my friend TheBisch&#8217;s blog:
Whatever your politics, however you lean and however you feel about the current administration, this report is interesting. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the...</description>
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<p>I grabbed this from my friend TheBisch&#8217;s blog:<br />
Whatever your politics, however you lean and however you feel about the current administration, this report is interesting. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Rick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hope intelligent Americans can decipher? Most American&#039;s dont care!!  Apathy is the church that most people sit in every day at this point while they are spoon fed what the main stream media (MSM) shovels into them.

If it comes down to people doing their own research, forget about the majority of American&#039;s figuring anything out.

If you dont mind, Im going to reference your post on my blog....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hope intelligent Americans can decipher? Most American&#8217;s dont care!!  Apathy is the church that most people sit in every day at this point while they are spoon fed what the main stream media (MSM) shovels into them.</p>
<p>If it comes down to people doing their own research, forget about the majority of American&#8217;s figuring anything out.</p>
<p>If you dont mind, Im going to reference your post on my blog&#8230;.</p>
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