12 Apr 2004 It’s Just CBS

Posted at 09:09h in Blog by

The Travelling Shoes blog dissects the statistics behind Andy Rooney’s controversial comments, and finds a few things Rooney clearly hadn’t considered:

One indication that not all soldiers in Iraq are happy warriors is the report recently released by the Army showing that 23 of them committed suicide there last year. This is a dismaying figure. If 22 young men and one woman killed themselves because they couldn’t take it, think how many more are desperately unhappy but unwilling to die.

Andy Rooney is a big-name media star with a nice salary and a staff. Too bad his research isn’t even blog-quality.



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