More On The Latest Way The Bush Administration Fudges The Numbers (Here, on Iraq, But They Do It Everywhere)

The Chicago Tribune offers more on the misguided (what? another understatement?), foolish, and truly criminal way the Bush Administration and Rumsfeld have decided to "edit" official civilian death tolls in Iraq by excluding deaths by insurgency from tallies.

CentCom representative: "Yes, Mrs. Akmed, I realize YOU think your husband is dead because his body lies in 147 different parts from the downtown Baghdad bomb but officially, we don't consider him dead. Kindly just Scotch tape him back together and take him home, OK? Oops - don't forget his right arm that flew through our office window. Thanks much!"