Raise your hand if you are surprised by this revelation; the systematic underreporting of violence and Iraqi deaths as a means to cover up the escalating violence in Iraq. That’s right, they LIED ,so that Congress and you an I wouldn’t have to worry our pretty little heads and things were going peachy in Iraq. In one day, “they” reported 92 acts of violence, when there really were 1,100. I’ve been on of those naysayers when it comes to impeachment, I’m starting to rethink that position.

On page 94 of its report, the Iraq Study Group found that there had been “significant under-reporting of the violence in Iraq.” The reason, the group said, was because the tracking system was designed in a way that minimized the deaths of Iraqis.

“The standard for recording attacks acts a filter to keep events out of reports and databases,” the report said. “A murder of an Iraqi is not necessarily counted as an attack. If we cannot determine the source of a sectarian attack, that assault does not make it into the database. A roadside bomb or a rocket or mortar attack that doesn’t hurt U.S. personnel doesn’t count.”

“Good policy is difficult to make when information is systematically collected in a way that minimizes its discrepancy with policy goals,” the report continued.