Friday, October 14, 2005

Fuzzy Math

In which the Cheney administration believes that 100 = 1.

Molly Ivins:
Liar of the week: George W. Bush said on his Saturday radio address a week and a half ago that Iraq has 100 battalions of battle-ready soldiers. By the time he got to his television address on Thursday, it was 80 battalions. (I guess it's worse to lie if they're taking pictures of you.) Unfortunately, the next day Gen. George Casey, who oversees U.S. forces in Iraq, said of those 80, the number of Iraqi battalions fit to fight independently of U.S. support had slipped from three to one. One, three, 80, 100 -- if this is Tuesday, it must be ...

1 comment:

sleepybomb said...

cool, i caught that and thought i was the only one. how do they get away with this stuff? none of the msm has called them on it either ...despicable!