Oh, the stupidity!

Moonbat Lee41 (aka Hindenburg) has come forward to tell us not to worry about the statistics on http://www.icasualties.org because they are not properly making a distinction between hostile and nonhostile fatalities in Iraq.

He then cites four U.S. servicemen and the way they perished, saying that they were listed as "nonhostile".

One little problem.

They're listed as hostile.

But it gets worse.

He goes on to say:

If you take the 1,857 deaths in Iraq (specifically attributed to Operation Iraqi Freedom) and the 224 deaths in Afghanistan (specifically attributed to Operation Enduring Freedom), that's 2,081. I believe the Bush Administration groups Iraq and Afghanistan as the 'War On Terror'. Therefore there have been over 2,000 brave service men and women who have died in the War On Terror.

There they go inflating figures again!

If you visit the Icasualties.org website, you can see he's listing numbers that not only include non-hostile fatalities, but also fatalities from all nationalities. That fact alone reduces the total by about...oh, 200! (And as far as I'm concerned, you can reduce that number by about 500 more if you are talking about soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq due to resistance/insurgency.)

Why, oh why, do these men feel the need to inflate these numbers, so?

The fact is that there are about 1,447 U.S. soldier fatalities classified as hostile in Iraq since the start of the war.