I find it very suspicious that a person whom is trying to get correct numbers on actual US troop deaths fudges the numbers that were sent to Iraq, in order to do so.
Here is the excerpt from the post that I find quite deceptive, as deceptive as the DoD number of deaths, let's face it.

"This means that of the 158,000 U.S. military shipped to Iraq ..."

Well, that may be a close approximation of the total number of US troops in Iraq at any one time, but the total number sent there over the course of war, rotating in then out, is above the 500,000 mark, perhaps in the 750,000 or more range. They don't keep the same troops there forever, they bring one set home and send another set out. Only sometimes, troops who have been there before return.

Of course, claiming only 158,000 total ever sent there, makes the desertion and dead and injured number seem a much greater portion of the total.

Why is that when I read something a dissenter writes up to expose a lie of the government, I find they include their own lie(s) in their hit piece as well ? How come that happens almost every single time I read a dissenting piece ?

My conclusion ? The people trying to out the government liars are just as big liars themselves. They certainly know full well why they short their own numbers in certain areas, for the effect they want, just as their piece analyzes why the government makes certain numbers lower than they should be.

I won't allow the " truth exposers " any more room for their lies, than they allow the government for theirs. No takebacks, no claiming you didn't know what you were doing, and no complicated explanations that claim for some obscure reason the false number is somehow correct or the reader didn't understand the context.

Liars and liars, and the shame is, that those exposing the lairs of the government are almost universally given to the same sort of low life debase lying that they rally against, and certainly that is the case here.

It is a shame.