George W picked a great day for a press conference, with the PageGate scandal still reverberating (more of that in a moment), the North Korean nuclear weapons test (yes, I know, some people say it wasn't a nuclear blast, or was a dud, but that's not the story the voters have been hearing) and a new report that civilian casualties in Iraq could exceed 600,000.
When asked about the casualty figures, the President dismissed them. Now, the report came from The Wall Street Journal, the study it was reporting is to appear in The Lancet, the world-renowned British Medical journal, and it was carried out by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The statistics in the report might turn out to be wrong, but they come from highly reputable sources--the kind that serious people should give serious consideration to. But not our President because, as we are by now well aware, if it doesn't fit the pre-conceived story, it can't be true.
(As for what "truth" means to Bush, that's for a posting that I have been meaning to write for some time. Soon, I promise.)
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