Iraq Casualty Stats

I did a little number crunching on deaths in Iraq today to see what I came up with. I compared deaths from red states with those from blue states. According to icasualties.org, there have been 1313 American deaths if you don't count foreigners fighting in the US military or those from Puerto Rico. 705 of those come from red states and 608 from blue states. So blue states provide 46.3% of deaths in Iraq. Those same blue states also have 48.7% of the US population according to the 2000 census. So a small overrepresentation of deaths from red states per capita. But not much.

The real meaning of these numbers is that when idiot Republicans say that Democrats are a bunch of unpatriotic cowardly traitors, we can say to them, "Look at the numbers, asshole. Nearly 1/2 of deaths in Iraq are from the 19 states + DC that voted for Kerry."