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Of course, we could have predicted this. Cooking the books is a Bush speciality, always has been.

Correcting an inaccurate report, the State Department announced Tuesday that acts of terror worldwide increased slightly last year and the number of people wounded rose dramatically.


The department also reported a decline in the number of people killed -- to 625 from 725 during 2002. But in April, the department reported 307 people had been killed last year -- a much bigger decline.

The findings had been used by senior Bush administration officials to bolster President Bush's claim of success in countering terrorism.

Powell said, "I can assure you it had nothing to do with putting out anything but the most honest, accurate information we can."
(via WaPo)

Poor old Colin Powell I hesitate to use a word like, well, "shuffle," but why on earth would anyone who was watched this administration over the last four years believe that Powell is capable of assuring anyone of anything?

And I love the little qualifying sting in the tail of "the most honest, accurate information we can", which should be amended to read "we can, given that we are ideologically driven Rapture-heads who wouldn't know what the truth is if it walked up and hit us with a 2 by 4."

Harrumph.