Operation Something Something.

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For the statistically inclined, this report has lots of data about casualties in Iraq vs. other conflicts vs. no conflicts. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison; you'll have to do some futzing with the numbers to get real data (Is 58,000 dead in the Vietnam era over nine years, with eight million in the military, comparable to 7,000 dead in the duration of the Iraq war, with 1.4 million in the military? Hard to say), but it's interesting to have a starting point for discussion, especially as little cwabs get to the age where the risk of one of those numbers including one of them increases dramatically. Not to mention a couple of folks who read this.