Time Immortal

Fry writes in with a correction to this old article. I always find it amusing when people remark on something buried deep in the archives, although I supposeFebruary of last year wasn’t all that long ago.

http://www.timeimmortal.net/2007/02/21/more-soldiers-died- in-peacetime-under-bill-clinton/

Sorry, you are mistaken.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_more_soldiers_die_ during_bill_clintons.html
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/deaths.asp

It does appear that the source I quoted was wrong. Pity. Ah, well, I suppose that’s the risk one takes in looking for news snippets on the Internet. Not that I trust Snopes.com as a source, mind…but Factcheck.org (which I hadn’t heard of until now) doesn’t seem to be particularly partisan (which Snopes can be).

So indeed, I was mistaken.

I think there is still some meat to the observation that left-wing governments care less about soldiers — as is evidenced by the decrepit state that successive Liberal governments allowed Canada’s Military to reach — however.