On May 10, 9:51*pm, RHF wrote:

Bill Clinton's Killer Peace : Active Duty Deaths resulting
from the Peace Missions to Bosnia, Kosovo and Somalia.

- 1993 * *Bill Clinton * *1,213
- 1994 * *Bill Clinton * *1,075
- 1995 * *Bill Clinton * *1,040
- 1996 * *Bill Clinton * *974
- 1997 * *Bill Clinton * *817
- 1998 * *Bill Clinton * *827
- 1999 * *Bill Clinton * *796
- 2000 * *Bill Clinton * *758
Total*: 7,500

Well, RHF, I see that you didn’t bother checking out the CRS report
that was mentioned in David’s post. Moreover, it seems that you
didn’t follow the news too well during the 1990’s, if you’re of the
erroneous impression that the US suffered such a high death toll in
Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Was your shortwave on the blink during
the 1990’s? Or were you just tuning to WWCR for reports of black
helicopters during those heady post-Cold War days?

The CRS report, referenced in David’s earlier post, can be accessed at
the link below:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf

year total mil* total deaths
1980 2,159,630 2,392
1981 2,206,751 2,380
1982 2,251,067 2,319
1983 2,273,364 2,465
1984 2,297,922 1,999
1985 2,323,185 2,252
1986 2,359,855 1,984
1987 2,352,697 1,983
1988 2,309,495 1,819
1989 2,303,384 1,636
1990 2,258,324 1,507
1991 2,198,189 1,787
1992 1,953,337 1,293
1993 1,849,537 1,213
1994 1,746,482 1,075
1995 1,661,928 1,040
1996 1,613,310 974
1997 1,578,382 817
1998 1,538,570 827
1999 1,525,942 796
2000 1,530,430 758
2001 1,552,196 891
2002 1,627,142 999
2003 1,732,632 1,228
2004 1,711,916 1,874
2005 1,664,014 1,942
2006 1,664,014 1,858

* Total military full-time equivalent

Of these deaths, you will find that those resulting from “accidents”
were the most numerous in the years from 1980 through 2003.
Categories not included below: “homicide”, “illness”, “pending”,
“self-inflicted”, & “undetermined”. Again, take a look at the report
for more details.

year accident hostile action terrorism
1980 1,556 0 1
1981 1,524 0 0
1982 1,495 0 0
1983 1,413 18 263
1984 1,293 1 6
1985 1,476 0 5
1986 1,199 2 0
1987 1,172 37 2
1988 1,080 0 17
1989 1,000 23 0
1990 880 0 1
1991 931 147 0
1992 676 0 1
1993 632 0 29
1994 544 0 0
1995 538 0 7
1996 527 1 19
1997 433 0 0
1998 445 0 3
1999 436 0 0
2000 398 0 17
2001 437 3 55
2002 547 18 0
2003 440 344 0
2004 604 739 0
2005 632 739 0
2006 465 753 0

By the way, total US active duty military deaths in Somalia were 43
(29 hostile, 14 non-hostile). US casualties were fewer in the Balkan
conflicts. For a refresher on Bosnia, let’s travel back in time a
bit: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/pub...fa=view&id=265

Anyway, you should more or less get the point.