If you haven't been
following the Global Terrorism Report story, here's what happened -- back
in April, the State Department released the 2003 edition of the annual
report, which said that terrorism had reached its lowest level in 30 years.
Folks naturally ran around saying how great that was. Only thing is that
it's not anywhere near true -- 2003 was one of the bloodiest, most violent
years ever. Turns out -- sweet Mary I can hardly type the words -- that
in addition to other mix-ups, they stopped counting terrorist attacks
in November so that they could get the report to the printer. Secretary
Powell has called it a "a
big mistake." (Jon Stewart calls
it something else.)
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