It has been a while since I visited icasualties.org, an independent, apparently reliable Web site that keeps track of the number of dead and wounded in the Iraq war. Run by people with other day jobs, icasualties.org is cited regularly by mainstream media, as it was last month in reports U.S. military deaths were at their lowest since March 2006 (36 reported in October). It's fascinating that one guy's interest and his home server in Georgia grew to become a reliable source of information for the likes of The New York Times and The Associated Press. But more interesting is...
