I really want to ask how it's possible for people to suspend disbelief so much so that they really believe Colin Powell when he says that somehow, they magically cut the death toll in terror attacks over the last year by a factor of 2, and it was all mistakes,
not politically altered?
The Bush administration on Tuesday will say terrorism killed 625 people in 2003, more than double the 307 deaths it cited in a faulty report used to argue it is winning the war on terrorism, a U.S. official said.
The revisions to the April "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report have embarrassed the Bush administration and dented its argument that Washington is prevailing in the war on terrorism, a key part of President Bush's re-election strategy.
How exactly do you miss 300 people killed in terror attacks?
(By the way, I think it's pretty obvious that, given the 500 or so Americans who had died in Iraq as of last December, the Iraqi insurgency is still not counted as part of the war on terror in this report. So the next time you hear that Iraq is the Central front on the war on terror, cite this full report as proof that even the Administration doesn't think that's the truth.)