*cough* *cough* BULLSHIT *cough* *cough*

[tjwash]

Pentagon Publicly Touts ‘Progress’ In Iraq, Secretly Acknowledges ‘Violence at An All-Time High’

Here is how the Pentagon publicly described the situation in Iraq in an email newsletter sent out on Monday:






Here’s how the Pentagon described the situation in Iraq in a classified briefing conducted just days earlier, according to a report in the New York Times. From a secret slide called “Index of Civil Conflict”:

[gfnrob]

1. Where on that scale

is civil war?? Before chaos? After?

[tjwash]

3. I think it's somewhere between "insurgency" and "last throes"

[indepat]

2. And the beat goes on

[tjwash]

4. Love that fair and balanced as well.