(Sad numbers. - promoted by Matt Singer)
...not that you could put a price on life.
This came from something else I'm working on, and I thought it deserved a post of its own.
my math was wrong on Montana, these are the corrected numbers.
Per capita deaths of Montanans in the Iraqi war theatre: 1 per 58,125
Per capita deaths of Montanans in both the Iraqi war theatre and in Afghanistan: 1 per 54,706
Compare that with this:
Per capita deaths of Pennsylvanians in the Iraqi war theatre: 1 per 83,581
Per capita deaths of Pennsylvanians in both the Iraqi war theatre and in Afghanistan: 1 per 77,312
Per capita deaths of Californians in the Iraqi war theatre: 1 per 109,816
Per capita deaths of Californians in both the Iraqi war theatre and in Afghanistan: 1 per 101,130
Per capita deaths of Texans in the Iraqi war theatre: 1 per 84,229
Per capita deaths of Texans in both the Iraqi war theatre and in Afghanistan: 1 per 77,814
Per capita deaths of Coloradians in the Iraqi war theatre: 1 per 129,167
Per capita deaths of Coloradians in both the Iraqi war theatre and in Afghanistan: 1 per 113,414
Per capita deaths of Idahoans in the Iraqi war theatre: 1 per 81,765
Per capita deaths of Idahoans in both the Iraqi war theatre and in Afghanistan: 1 per 81,765
Per capita deaths of Utahans in the Iraqi war theatre: 1 per 165,000
Per capita deaths of Utahans in both the Iraqi war theatre and in Afghanistan: 1 per 145,58
Per capita deaths of Wyomingites in the Iraqi war theatre: 1 per 56,111
Per capita deaths of Wyominites in both the Iraqi war theatre and in Afghanistan: 1 per 45,909
I used figures from the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Population Estimates 2000 to 2006, and ballparked the above states average estimated population for the period between 2000 and 2006 (I used 930,000 for Montana; 12,370,000 for Pennsylvania; 35,800,000 for California; and 23,500,000 for Texas. 4,650,000 for Colorado; 1,390,000 for Idaho; 2,475,000 for Utah; and 505,000 for Wyoming)
I took military death information from the Department of Defense, but I did use other more up-to-date death figures for Montana. I used 16 for the number of Montanans killed in Iraq, and 1 for the number of Montanans killed in Afghanistan.
You can nosh that around any way you'd like - but a consistent approach will show one thing that I started thinking about back at the beginning of the year when I wrote the original post linked to above - that Montanans are paying a pretty high price for an illegal war in Iraq. |
