[dirtboy]

• U.S. military fatalities from hostile acts have risen from an average of about 17 per month just after President Bush declared an end to major combat operations on May 1, 2003, to an average of 82 per month.

The casualties spike up in November with the assault on Fallujah, and that carried into December with subsequent pursuit of insurgents into other cities. But don't let the facts get in the way.

Attacks on the U.S.-led coalition since November 2003, when statistics were first available, have risen from 735 a month to 2,400 in October.

First of all, define attacks, and second, buried in this stat is the fact that attacks on American troops are dropping.

One of the first signs of statistical abuse is when the baseline changes from claim to claim.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I love to see crap articles like this getting dissected on Freerepublic....