as he frantically tried to divert Dorothy and her friends from the truth:

"Pay no attention to the corpses -- I mean 'that MAN" -- behind the curtain."

I understand they intend to name the new morgues after two famous Iraqi freedom fighters: The George W. Bush Morgue and the Richard B. Cheney Morgue.

Where are you, Joe?

I need a right-wing translation of this article, please. Like, "The Liberal media are at it again. Yes, there are new morgues. But under Saddam, there were NO morgues; he just buried the bodies in a pit. See how much better off the Iraquis are now??"

Washington Post writer Ellen Knickmeyer’s article on august death counts in Bagdad tend to refute the propaganda spun by the US Military. The Military purports that death due to sectarian violence was down by over 50% in August following the instigation of, “Operation Forward Together”. In fact, the number of deaths reported by Baghdad's morgue almost tripled for violent death in Iraq's capital during August from 550 to 1,536. That’s right, tripled. Reasons given by the US Military for the disparity: the military, to prop up the illusion of success, decided to count only "individuals targeted as a result of sectarian-related violence, to include executions". What they didn’t include were violent deaths in Bagdad resulting from, "other violent acts such as car bombs, RPG, and mortars."

Joe, are you following this?

Apparently your death wouldn’t be included into the count if you were to be obliterated by one of the aforementioned devices in Bagdad. Apparently, to be included into the Military count you would have needed to be shot at point blank, tortured, your body found with drill holes, and perhaps without a head. Picky, picky. Somehow these other types of violent sectarian deaths were deemed superfluous by US Military propagandists in order to extol the success of the initiative. Indeed, including these additional 1000 deaths would make, “Operation Forward Together” seem ineffective or worse, a complete failure. Lastly, to the US Military’s chagrin, these reality based death figures play oh-to-well into the “liberal media’s” bias slant on the war.

The Bush administration has it all figured out. Boy do I ever feel safer.

I guess that next W. is going to say things are brightening up in Iraq with new investments that are going to create new economic activities and a better standard of living for its citizens!

That plus the recent assumption of Iraqi power over its military (over a navy similar to the Bolivian navy, a quais inexistent air force and one out of 8 army divisions, "as they stand up we stand down") and the elections and the national government etc..., all goes to show that we are on the right path and we have to stay the course (while adjusting!)

If only the defeatocrats were not gunning (sorry!) to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory just to spite the Republicans for purely partisan reasons!