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AOL News Falsely Suggests Dramatic Decline In U.S. Fatalities In Iraq

AOL News has a chart — in a section called “Where Are We Headed” — that makes it appear that casualties in Iraq are dramatically declining:

Of course, we’re less than three months into 2006. Here is what an intellectually honest chart looks like (click for full size version):

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