Emanuel on Iraq Report: We don’t need a report that wins the Nobel Prize for creative statistics or the Pulitzer for fictionSeptember 7th, 2007 by Karina
As the Gavel noted yesterday, the Washington Post reported U.S. military leaders and the White House are “cherry-picking” data on violence in Iraq to bolster their claims that the President’s failed war strategy is working. In order to support this claim, military and Administration calculations are based on a system of categorizing and excluding statistics that “selectively ignored negative trends” and “puzzled” senior intelligence officials and the nation’s chief auditor and head of the Government Accountability Office.
This morning, Caucus Chair Rahm Emanuel took to the floor saying, “Instead of a new strategy for Iraq, the Bush Administration is cherry-picking the data to support their political objectives and preparing a report that will offer another defense of the President’s strategy. We don’t need a report that wins the Nobel Prize for creative statistics or the Pulitzer for fiction. Americans are demanding the facts, an end to this open-ended commitment, a surge on the political and diplomatic front. In short, the American people want a new direction in Iraq.”
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