Date: Wed, 21 Apr 99 14:05:41 EDT
From: "Brian J. Callahan" <Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: re: Re: NATO doesn't want diplomacy


Mokey puts forth:
>three times more american troops would have been killed in car accidents if
>they had stayed home compared to the seven months they spent in the
>MidEast, waiting and then fighting, than were killed in the actual war 
>itself.

Well, about 50,000 Americans die in car accidents every year.  There are 
about 250,000,000 Americans.  That's about .02%.  There were about 200,000
American soldiers in the Gulf.  That would make 40, and I think there were 
over 200 casualties, so that doesn't quite make it.  But, of course, that's 
the average rate of accidents.  Soldiers tend to be young, even teenagers.  
I'm sure they have a higher rate, but I don't know what it is.  So, maybe...

Glad I cleared that up.