Your right, there are not 250 million families in the US. It is closer to 62.5 million.
This is assuming that a family consists of 1 father, 1 mother and 2 children.
If you read down a little futher, he uses Moore's methodology to come to the number that congressional families are 23% more likely to be closely related to an Iraqi serviceman or servicewoman.
We then see that of 535 Congressional families, there are two with a child who served in Iraq. How does this compare with American families in general? In the summer of 2003, U.S. troop levels in Iraq were raised to 145,000. If we factor in troop rotation, we could estimate that about 300,000 people have served in Iraq at some point. According to the Census Bureau, there were 104,705,000 households in the United States in 2000. (See Table 1 of the Census Report.) So the ratio of ordinary U.S. households to Iraqi service personnel is 104,705,000 to 300,000. This reduces to a ratio of 349:1.
In contrast the ratio of Congressional households to Iraqi service personnel is 535:2. This reduces to a ratio of 268:1.
Stated another way, a Congressional household is about 23 percent more likely than an ordinary household to be closely related to an Iraqi serviceman or servicewoman.
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Nice Moore-ism with about lawyers and nice language with "ultra-leftist", as if having lawyers automatically makes what he has to say wrong.[/b]
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Upon further reflection, no, hireing a team of lawyers does not automatically make what Moore says as wrong. People hire lawyers to defend themselves all the time.
The majority of the time, this is done a court of law.
I stand by my "ultra-leftist" statement. Or perhaps hyper-leftist is better. To claim Moore is anything but this, is wrong.
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This guy has an agenda as well, you know. Just because he said it doesn't it mean it's the actual account any more than what Moore has to say.[/quote]
Your right. He does have an agenda. And yes, he does put his spin on. What he does do, in nearly all cases, is provide the transcript of what was said, wish some context. This gives the reader the opportunity to see both sides of what was said, and come to their own conclusions.
Also, I do not agree with what he says with firing on military planes as attempted murder. Military personal join the military, knowing that they loose their life in battle. I consider this an occupational hazard.