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Thread ID: 6146 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-04-14
2003-04-14 12:20 | User Profile
Study: 20 percent of war deaths are blacks By THOMAS HARGROVE April 11, 2003
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Nearly a fifth of the fatalities among U.S. troops in the current war in Iraq are black, which will be the highest cost African Americans have paid in any of America's wars if the trend continues.
There are also indications that Hispanics may be over-represented among the war dead, according to a Scripps Howard News Service study.
This is the part that will be omitted in future discussions of these numbers:
This isn't the result of minorities being assigned to dangerous duty in front-line units. Elite combat troops like Special Forces units and the Green Berets are disproportionately white, military experts said. The U.S. Army's dash to Baghdad forced supply convoys occasionally to traverse enemy-held territory in southern and central Iraq, leaving minority troops assigned to logistical units vulnerable.
2003-04-15 05:47 | User Profile
Nearly a fifth of the fatalities among U.S. troops in the current war in Iraq are black ... There are also indications that Hispanics may be over-represented among the war dead
I still wonder why this is... White people, comparatively peaceful by nature, nevertheless can stomp some ass when called upon to actually fight; meanwhile negroes and mestizos, who seem to delight in urban street violence, utterly suck at genuine combat.
2003-04-15 16:12 | User Profile
For some reason, the bullets were hitting him, and he did not know why or how.....