{"id":360,"date":"2007-01-11T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:03:39","slug":"iraq-casualties-which-people-are-paying-the-biggest-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Iraq casualties: which people are paying the biggest price?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nUnquestionably, Iraq has suffered the largest death toll per 100,000 of population with 504 deaths based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.org\/\">low end estimate of 53,101 deaths<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/iz.html\">a population estimated by the CIA to be 26,783,383<\/a>.  However, you might be surprised by the people who follow.  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/static.php?f=homeofrecord.php\">US Marine Corps Times website<\/a>, 10.4 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Samoa\">American Samoans<\/a> per 100,000 of population (65,000) have lost their lives in the conflict compared, say, to 0.77 per 100,000 of the population of New York State, which has a population of nearly 19 million.  That&#8217;s some sacrifice, especially when one considers that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Samoa#Nationality\">persons born in American Samoa are United States nationals, but not United States citizens<\/a>.  Samoan is the fourth largest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandcity.govt.nz\/auckland\/introduction\/people\/ethnicity.asp\">ethnic group<\/a> (20,730) in Auckland, following New Zealand European\/pakeha (206,937), Chinese (30,285) and Maori (29,139).\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Auckland\" rel=\"tag\">Auckland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/casualties\" rel=\"tag\">casualties<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/iraq\" rel=\"tag\">iraq<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/samoa\" rel=\"tag\">samoa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unquestionably, Iraq has suffered the largest death toll per 100,000 of population with 504 deaths based on a low end estimate of 53,101 deaths from a population estimated by the CIA to be 26,783,383. However, you might be surprised by the people who follow. According to the US Marine Corps Times website, 10.4 American Samoans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893049,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/216893049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}