Afghanistan

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by RACooper

The sobering statistic that a Canadian is 6 times more likely to die due to enemy contact than a US solider in Iraq isn't going to help either.

How Is that true? I'm pretty sure a lot more Americans have lost their lives in Iraq than Canadians have in Afghanistan.

[RACooper]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

How Is that true? I'm pretty sure a lot more Americans have lost their lives in Iraq than Canadians have in Afghanistan.

Not total, but statistical average based on total deployed troops and total casualties... based on statistics Canada's casualty rate in Afghanistan is 6 times that of the US's in Iraq.

Link to actual study:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/doc...das_Fallen.pdf