1 I hated Clinton - rarely if ever even mention him but ... ... this has got to be one of the dumbest approaches for the basis of argument I have heard in awhile. Why?

2 It's standard statistical inference and quite common--especially in epidemiology. That is, when comparing across time one cannot only focus on a single causal factor. While the number of U.S. casualties have gone up dramatically due to casualties of war, they have gone down significantly in other areas--especially the murder rate and the suicide rate.

3 Er uh lets see he bombed that Milosovek dude and got our ass run our of Somalia. Did I miss anything? Oh yeah 11 missiles at Al-Qaeda. That a lot of dead guys for not doing much.

4 Can you locate the numbers for Reserve and Guard deaths? I suspect that there would be a major difference during the two periods.

5 Reservists and National Guardsmen are generally considered "Active Duty" when called up and deployed.

6 This results of this comparison are to me about as useful as a comparasion of US civillian deaths by terrorists durring the same period. Personalites are interesting but fail to give the full picture of what has happened or is occuring. As Tolstoy noted it was not Napolean that invaded Russia.... it was the French Army that invaded Russia.

7 A leader who seeks soley his own council is a dangerous man! Object lesson in progress!

8 Strange, and sad topic. While all these fellow Americans have died, neither Mr. Bush, or Mr. Clinton buy their milk the same way we do, and never will. I never cared about Mr. Clinton getting a B.J., more men should get them. However, it appeared Mr. Clinton is a globalist, and stabed this last nation state in the back to further that end. Mr. Bush was once, I think, an WASP capitalist, but is being pushed to be a globalist. For example, KAFTA, debt increase to weaken the U.S., and the southern border invasion of people, and exit of untaxed monies. More, and more Americans die to keep fellows like Mr. Clinton, and Mr. Bush in office.

9 I think Rusty has grasped the most useful inference we can make in this comparison: as combat deaths went up deaths from suicide and murder went down. This is the signature of men doing what they feel their service and mission are supposed to be. Anyone remember the theme of Frem Here to Eternity?

10 Hated Clinton. Still do. But in all fairness to our fat letcherous hillbilly ex-pres during his first term the nation still had a cold war sized military. More troops = more deaths from accidents etc.