FUDGING THE NUMBERS

There is almost no limit to the lying the criminal Bush regime will do to make it seem it is correct about Iraq.

Via Kevin Drum, I learn that the DoD has been busy fudging the deaths due to sectarian violence (from NSN):

There were significant revisions to the way the Pentagon’s reports measure sectarian violence between its March 2007 report and its June 2007 report. The
original data for the five months before the surge began (September 2006 through
January 2007) indicated approximately 5,500 sectarian killings. In the revised data in the June 2007 report, those numbers had been adjusted to roughly 7,400 killings – a 25% increase. These discrepancies have the impact of making the sectarian violence appear significantly worse during the fall and winter of 2006 before the President’s “surge” began. [DOD, 11/2006 . 3/2007 . 6/2007 ]

Thanx to Andrew Sullivan, here's a graph of the changes: