Friday, September 22, 2006

Statistics

The US military had initially claimed a dramatic drop in the Iraqi death toll for August, but the estimate was revised sharply upwards after it revealed that it had inexplicably left out figures for people killed by bombs, mortars, rockets and other mass attacks.

The Guardian 9/22/2006

2 comments:

Steve Muhlberger said...

Inexplicably!

Clemens said...

I am afraid it is very explicable. He wants to be prez, and now he can have it both ways: he stood up manfully to his own president, but did not really stop him from anything he wanted to do.