FORMER SPINSANITY GUY BRENDAN NYHAN notes bogus death numbers being peddled by antiwar groups. And Shannon Love has more math.

UPDATE: Reader Peter Malloy emails: “The inability to sense of irony among the anti-war left never ceases to amaze me. The way this group clings to the 100,000 deaths figure makes clear that they WANT it, desperately, to be true. This group of people, ostensibly against the killing involved in war, actually desires that Iraqi civilians have suffered the worst case outcome in order to support their political views. Real humanitarians, ain’t they?”