And first off, shame on her if she didn't check the facts.

Are you conversent with what constitutes a classification of "amputee"? If a humvee passenger gets both right limbs explosively removed and there's nothing to amputate, is he or she an offical amputee?

Also, does "the war on terror" have a specific connotation and does it include Operation Iraqi Freedom?

This comment seems to me (and I'm frequently full of shit) to be the echo of some indignation and anger generation media. You wouldn't make a post like this that mirrored some blog without attributing it would you? According to your numbers, there are still at least 500 men and women missing at least one major limb. A factor of four from what she claimed, and yet there are all kinds of factor of four numerical misrepresentations associated with this war that I don't read you decrying.

The reality of this war is bad enough without Jornalists like these bums flippantly pulling numbers out of their "hats" to bolster their worldview and agenda.

All I'm saying is that this seems to think that you know both that she knowingly fabricated and had a specific motivation for doing so.