Greg Sargent has a good catch here at Horse’s Mouth. In Michael Gordon’s rather credulous piece in the Times on Saturday he cited military numbers showing a drop in civilian casualties across Iraq in August. This was proffered as a counter to the recent GAO report. But less than a week earlier another article in the Times cited Iraqi Interior Ministry numbers showing precisely the opposite.
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