THE STUPIDIST THING I'VE EVER READ

"Between March 21, 2003, when the first military death was recorded in Iraq, and March 31, 2006, there were 2,321 deaths among American troops in Iraq. Seventy-nine percent were a result of action by hostile forces. Troops spent a total of 592,002 "person-years" in Iraq during this period. The ratio of deaths to person-years, .00392, or 3.92 deaths per 1,000 person-years, is the death rate of military personnel in Iraq."

There's more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

They go smoothly from comparing "person-years" to persons....despicable.  

I don't know statistics, but it seems to me that if the same 135,000 people keep going back to Iraq each year, then this number is off a factor of 4, meaning the death rate is more like 10 per 1,000 persons (not "person-years" - clear corporate mentality at work here, as in "man-hours."

Most surprising (to me, since I spend so little time in "right-wing-world") is how many idiots fall for this crap.  (no link, please, no link.)