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[brettdale]

What does the US death toll have to get up to? for the media to start shouting, "bring the troops home!"

[DrDebug]

1. This is a combined graph

http://www.lies.com/wp/2003/10/20/us-deaths-in-vietnam-and-iraq-by-month/

I think that the threshold was about 200+/month. That's when the masses couldn't take anymore

[TR Fan]

4. This graph is a bit tired

It measures absolute numbers. Why not measure as a percentage of the troops deployed. Obviously, give the fact that in the first years of VN, the number of US troops were extemely limited, while, in the first years of Iraq, the numbers were 100000+, the absolute numbers killed will be larger in the latter case.

Now, please change the subject by telling us all how horrible any single death is (true) and to measure percentages is to reduce our sensibility to individual death (true). However, be sure to note the point you were originally trying to obfuscate with the original graph.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. I agree

An extremely dishonest graph.

[DrDebug]

8. I'm just making a comparison

And this is the only graph I could find and I don't have a spreadsheet etc to make you another one. It measures the number of soldiers killed per month.

The point is that the Vietnam started slow and there was no real resistence during the beginning either. It wasn't until it peaked that the people started to take genuine interest. By the looks of things the number is still too low right now.

Indeed each death is horrible, but people aren't going to respond to one single death. It isn't until they start to hear that 50 soldiers were killed this week that they are going to wake up.

And I didn't try to obfuscate anything. It's just a graph of two wars. And during the first there was no response in the beginning either and this war still isn't upto the scale of the end of the Vietnam war.

[maveric]

2. Please dont let it hit 1600!

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. It'll hit 1600 before the end of the week

Bank on it.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a LIE? nt

[leftofthedial]

7. The media will NEVER start crying that

That is not their job.