[Red Badger]

18 a day, 120 a week?.........Hyperbole to the extreme?..........maybe not:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/earlyshow/main3494261.shtml

[pas]

5,000 ex-servicemen and women

That does not mean only those who served in Iraq and Afgahni theatres. This is all ex service men and women no matter how long ago. Selective use of numbers.

[shove_it]

Here’s a more recent bunch of gobldegook from CBS explaining how they got their numbers (read SWAG):

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/cbsnews_investigates/main3498625.shtml