Proof: Baghdad violence did NOT drop in Aug. Bush just fudged the numbers.

[Fridays Child]

From the Bush administration's Department of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics...

Boasting Baghdad 'murder' drop, U.S. didn't add in mass attacks
The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.12.2006

BAGHDAD — The American military did not count people killed by bombs, mortars, rockets or other mass attacks — including suicide bombings — when it reported a dramatic drop in the number of murders in the Baghdad area last month, the U.S. command said Monday.

The decision to include only victims of drive-by shootings and those killed by torture and execution, usually at the hands of death squads, allowed U.S. officials to argue that a security crackdown that began in the capital Aug. 7 had more than halved the city's murder rate.

Under the military definition, "murders" include civilians killed "who are specifically targeted," but do not include executions or "those killed in indirect fire, IED (improvised explosive devices), VBIED (car bombs), or suicide attacks, all of which may or may not be related to sectarian violence," U.S. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said Monday.

At the end of August, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, said violence had dropped significantly because of the operation. Caldwell said "attacks in Baghdad were well below the monthly average for July. Since Aug. 7, the murder rate in Baghdad dropped 52 percent from the daily rate for July."

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[Turbineguy]

1. The Bush Administration fudging numbers?

amazing. I am amazed!:sarcasm:

[Fridays Child]

2. Smoke and mirrors abroad...

...bread and circuses at home.

[Fridays Child]

3. kick

[jazzjunkysue]

4. You expect a Yaleman to count that high, and carry the 1?

[Fridays Child]

5. If only it were an accounting error.

These people cook all of their books. :(