Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Remember Lancet
Remember all those roundly derided Lancet studies on death in Iraq?
WASHINGTON - U.S. military and intelligence officials have systematically underreported the violence in Iraq in order to suit the Bush administration's policy goals, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group said....The panel pointed to one day last July when U.S. officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. "Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence," it said.
Wow. What a surprise!