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  • 2015-03-17 (xsd:date)
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  • There Were More Military Deaths During The Clinton Presidency Than... (en)
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  • There Were More Military Deaths During The Clinton Presidency Than During the George W. Bush Presidency-Fiction! There Were More Military Deaths During The Clinton Presidency Than During the George W. Bush Presidency- Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The forwarded email lists year-by-year statistics of military deaths from 1980 through 2006 and concludes that there were more deaths during the years of the presidency of Bill Clinton, when there was no war, than during the years of George W. Bush when there was war in Iraq and conflict in Afghanistan. The Truth: Whoever assembled this eRumor claimed that it was based on statistics from the U.S. Government, but the figures in the eRumor do not match the figures in the actual government report it references. The eRumor includes a link to the report, which was dated June 29, 2007, and prepared by the Congressional Research Service. It is titled American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics. Whoever created this forwarded email exaggerated the death statistics from the Clinton years and reduced the actual numbers from the Bush years. The eRumor, for example. claims that there were more than 14,000 deaths during the Clinton presidency and a little more than 7,000 deaths during the presidency of George W. Bush. In reality the opposite is true. There were 7500 military deaths during the Clinton years and as of the date of the report, 8792 deaths during the Bush presidency. Here is a comparison of what the email claims compared with with the government report actually says: Year eRumor Figures Actual Figures Presidency 1993 1213 1213 Clinton 1994 1075 1075 Clinton 1995 2465 1040 Clinton 1996 2318 974 Clinton 1997 817 817 Clinton 1998 2252 827 Clinton 1999 1984 796 Clinton 2000 1983 758 Clinton Totals: 14107 7500 2001 890 891 George W. Bush 2002 1007 999 George W. Bush 2003 1410 1228 George W. Bush 2004 1887 1874 George W. Bush 2005 919 1942 George W. Bush 2006 920 1858 George W. Bush Totals: 7033 8792 The eRumor also says that there were more deaths during the year 1980 in the Carter years than the worst year under George W. Bush. Even with the corrected figures, that appears to be true. There were 2392 deaths in 1980 and the highest number of deaths during any given year at the time of the date of the report were 1942 in 2005. Updated 9/11/08 Posted in Military , Politics (en)
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