Desertion distortion.(Correction, Please!)

The New American | December 24, 2007| | Copyright

ITEM: The Associated Press reported on November 16: "Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003."

ITEM: On November 16, Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News, in his introduction to an account about U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, commented: "The deployments have been long, up to 15 months at a time away from home, and then some. And tonight, there is hard evidence that that time away ...

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