Mar08_05

I just learned recently that one of our fellow church members (Jimmy
Jenkins) decided to go back to the future by attending a Statistics class
at Glennville. He told me once before, that he enjoyed reading the
statistic data I put in the newsletter, so since he's going to school once
again, I found some new data for him to analyze. I hope you also find it
interesting:

Since the start of the war on terror in Iraq and Afganistan , the sacrifice
has been enormous. In the time period from the invasion of Iraq in March
2003 through now, we have lost over 3000 military personnel to enemy
action and accidents. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US
Armed Forces is,consider the following statistics: The annual fatalities of
military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980
through 2006:

If you are confused when you look at these figures...so was I. Do these figures mean that
the loss from the two latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military
personnel during Mr. Clinton 's presidency; when America wasn't even involved in a war?
And, I was even more confused; when I read that in 1980, during the reign of President
(Nobel Peace Prize) Jimmy Carter, there were 2,392 US military fatalities!

These figures indicate that many of our Media & Politicians will pick and choose. They
present only those 'facts' which support their agenda-driven reporting. Why do so many of
them march in lock-step to twist the truth. Where do so many of them get their
marching-orders for their agenda?

Our Mainstream Print and TV media, and many Politicians like to slant; that these brave
men and women, who are losing their lives in Iraq , are mostly minorities! Wrong AGAIN ---
just one more media lie!

The latest census, of Americans, shows the following distribution of American citizens, by
Race:
European descent (White) .... 69.12%
Hispanic ................................ 12.5%
Black..................................... 12.3%
Asian ..................................... 3.7%
Native American .................. . 1.0%
Other ..................................... 2.6%

Now... here are the fatalities by Race; over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:

European descent (white) .... 74.31%
Hispanic ........................... 10.74%
Black ................................... 9.67%
Asian .............................. . 1.81%
Native American ................. 1.09%
Other ....................................0 .33%

These statistics are published by Congressional Research Service, and they may be
confirmed by anyone at:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf (Please look at this report site if you have
the chance.)
Now ask yourself these two questions:
1. 'Why does the mainstream Print and TV Media never provide statistics like these?'
2. 'Why does the mainstream media hate the web as much as they do?'