It was always a retarded argument, but when I debated with someone about the Iraq war and needless deaths, I always pointed out that needless deaths are just a way of life. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that there were 41,059 deaths on the highway in 2007 (surprisingly, that’s down 1,000 deaths from 2006).
The Iraq Coalition Count lists (pretty explanatory on the service they provide) 4,142 American military deaths. Global Security lists that number at 4,067. Through the entire war, military deaths have barely approached a tenth of those that died on the highway last year alone. Taking the 2007 number of 41,059 deaths on the highway, span it over the course of the war, you come up with a rough number of 240,000 deaths.
My point isn’t to justify the military dead in Iraq (it’s just a little brain fodder) — and admittedly, this says nothing of Iraqi civilians and other coalition members that have died. Shit happens in life and most of it, if not all of it, you can’t control.
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