The Independent reports,

The Pentagon has admitted for the first time that it is keeping track of civilian casualties in Iraq. The figures, slipped into a bar graph in a lengthy report to the US congress this month, show that the daily number of Iraqi casualties has more than doubled in the past 18 months.

The report says that nearly 26,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded.

Chances that George Bush or Dick Cheney have seen these numbers, zero. Reason for keeping these figures secret, your guess is as good as mine, but George Bush's poll numbers and his "accountability moment" last November might have something to do with it. Speaking of that "accountability moment" last November, am I the only one who's noticed a real lack of terror alerts since then? I mean there was that bogus NYC subway threat, and the Baltimore tunnel thing, but really I miss the bi-monthly terror alerts.
posted by Idle Crank at 10/31/2005 01:37:00 AM