Editor & Publisher has an odd little article up compiling some statistics on the Iraq War on the occasion of the (announcement of the official) 3000th combat death in the conflict. There are some oddities in this list, like this note:

Deaths by hostile fire: 2422 80.9%
Non-hostile: 578

Age 18-20: 517 17.2%
Age 21-30: 1813 60.9%

Look at those last two entries: 17.2 and 60.9 don't add up to 100%, they only come to 78.1%. Assuming that this is not the Civil War, where underage boys run away from the farm to the recruiting office with a piece of paper in their shoe with the number "18" written on it so that when they are asked their age they can truthfully say they are "over 18" we will assume that the people omitted from this list are over the age of 30. Read more…

25,000. Think about that for a minute. And remember: given the numbers estimated by actual scientists who are not sycophantic journalists or career concerned military people which suggest we've been lied to abuot the actual Iraqi body count, it's probable that the US casualty numbers have been lowballed as well. Read more…