Numbers

I'm glad someone is looking into the latest NYT attempt to paint our servicemen and women as murderers. The Times story uses an old tactic, using statistics to mislead. They claim that their research shows that 121 veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan were charged or convicted in a killing in this country after returning from the Middle East. The NYT wasn't interested in comparing this to the rate of killings/charges for the general population. Winds of Change, and I'm sure others, are looking into this.

Also what doesn't interest the NYT: the number of ME veterans who saved a life, or the number of veterans who volunteered in their community, after returning to this country.

I'm reminded of the Benjamin Disraeli quote, often attributed to Mark Twain: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and anything written by those butt-wipes from the New York Times.