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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (211691)	1/3/2007 4:04:35 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

The graph was interesting because at first glance, my reading of it was that it claimed US Military deaths during the Iraq war were actually lower than during the relatively peaceful Clinton years, and my reaction to that was that clearly the data must be bogus. However, when I reread the data labels, and then the graph title again, I understood what was going on. If you are willing to allow each data label to modify the graph title specifically for that data point then one could argue that grammatically there are no lies. I suspect that the point was in fact to allude that Military casualties during the Iraq war are low, with hopefully many people being shocked into thinking that the military actually had more total deaths/yr under Clinton, than it does under Bush. But perhaps I'm the only one who was at first blinkered that way. Reminds me of the visual effect of a picture that is either two faces or one vase. One may argue that such a picture is not deceptive, but it is pretty clear that it was designed to be seen two different ways at first glance.