400 dead in Iraq? Come on.

Just posting this in the neverending battle against Bush administration lies. Tuesday, a week after the WaPo published a story reporting more than 1,300 dead in the Bagdhad morgue since the mosque bombing, Rumsfeld came out with this crazy stuff.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today presented an upbeat report of the conflict in Iraq and said he agrees with the commander of the U.S.-led coalition, Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., that the news media has exaggerated the number of civilian casualties in the conflict. ....

But, you see Don, as so many war criminals have learned before you, you just can't hide dead bodies.

BAGHDAD, March 8 -- Days after the bombing of a Shiite shrine unleashed a wave of retaliatory killings of Sunnis, the leading Shiite party in Iraq's governing coalition directed the Health Ministry to stop tabulating execution-style shootings, according to a ministry official familiar with the recording of deaths.

So, no matter what you're Iraqi government friends are telling you, they are hiding the death squad killings.

See, that's your problem, Don. You believe what you want to believe, regardless of the truth. You surround yourself with yes men, and your pigheadedness, your failure to stop and ask for directions along the way, has landed us all in this ditch.