as i said

these peeps really know how to spin. it's amazing for a couple of reasons. they can do it with a fairly straight face AND we're ALLOWING them to do it.

lie to us, deceive us. SEND OUR MEN AND WOMEN INTO HARM'S WAY while their pockets are being lined and their kids are home safe and sound (well maybe NOT sound)

Death squad activity up 40 percent in a month

As the White House stood firm in its commitment to a troop surge in the Iraq war, statistics released this week show a key indicator of progress in Iraq trending in the wrong direction.
Insurgent death squads dumped 234 bodies around Baghdad in the first 11 days of May, a 41 percent increase from the 137 bodies dumped around the capital during the first 11 days of April, The Observer of London reported Sunday.
Addressing reporters Monday, White House spokesman Tony Snow said there was "concern" about the rise in death-squad activity, but he maintained "the longer-term trends ... still generally are down and considerably so."
Speaking before the release of the new statistics, a Pentagon spokesman in Baghdad downplayed the increase of violence. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad that there had been a "very slight uptick" in the number of "murders and executions" in Baghdad............