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A U.S. State Department report on terrorism released in April, 2004, erroneously reported that global terrorism decreased in 2003 from 2002 levels. State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher later said that the report was based on faulty data, and that the corrected report will show "a sharp increase over the previous year." (Add picture)

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bibliophile (10)
09/02/2004
The admin released a report that failed to include terrorist acts perpetrated after Nov, when things got uglier. This was obviously a ploy to downplay the fact that terrorism has increased, not decreased. But the Bush admin tried to pawn this off as an honest mistake, and they have made so many honest mistakes, people may just believe they are sloppy and incompetent at worst, instead of the manipulative, shameless liars that they are.

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John McCain (1)
06/27/2004
Honest mistake, or so they claim.

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zeed (0)
06/22/2004
Your president, and americans must not be very smart, I knew this had nothing to do with terrorism all along, duh. and you people are making the world safer, do us a favor, stay home, and buy the oil from them. Who gave Sadama weapons and anthrax, oh thats right it was regan & Rumsfeld, to kill Iran in the 80s. He must not have been such a bad guy then.

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magellan (153)
06/17/2004
The point, of course, is not that there were errors in the report. How can you blame a President for that? I would hope that he doesn't actually have to crunch the numbers. The point is that the Bush administration was using erroneous statistics to show that the War on Terror is working. Because the initial report showed a decrease in terrorism, that must mean that Bush's policies versus terrorism are showing progress. So, when the statistics show the opposite - that in reality, global terrorism has shown a sharp increase, does this mean that we should draw the opposite conclusion? That the War on Terror is actually increasing global terrorism? I'm not smart enough to know the answer, and what I think is irrelevant. The point of this whole list is to try and put yourself in the shoes of swing voters - not to spout off partisan fight songs. When I look at it from that perspective, maybe it erodes a little confidence in swing voter perspective of the judgment involved in crafting the War on Terror.

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jamestkirk (23)
06/17/2004
These errors can be attributed as far back to the Reagan administration. You can't pin it all on Pres. Bush. Clinton's and Bush Sr.'s administration are equally responsible.

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