18 April 2005

Jerks

From KnightRidder:

The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.

Not-only-that-but-also:

Last June, the administration was forced to issue a revised version of the report for 2003 that showed a higher number of significant terrorist attacks and more than twice the number of fatalities than had been presented in the original report two months earlier.

The snafu was embarrassing for the White House, which had used the original version to bolster President Bush's election-campaign claim that the war in Iraq had advanced the fight against terrorism.

Jerks.

This could be used unedited as a Tom Tomorrow comic strip. I guess I should just appreciate the absurdity of it all.

[ posted by sstrader on 18 April 2005 at 8:18:53 AM in Politics ]