• Seventy percent of U.S. casualties in Iraq caused by explosive devices, Gates says


...let me guess, the other 30 % were caused by bullets & accidents?


What a dumb stat to headline a report with....a headline would have been "70% of soldiers killed by stampeding buffalo"

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/...ran/index.html

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