Dubya: If we don't count the dead, then we have success!

McClatchy Newspapers reports:

U.S. officials who say there's been a dramatic drop in sectarian violence in Iraq since President Bush began sending more American troops into Baghdad aren't counting one of the main killers of Iraqi civilians.

Car bombs and other explosive devices have killed thousands of Iraqis in the last three years, but the administration doesn't include them in the casualty counts it's been citing as evidence that the surge of additional U.S. forces is beginning to defuse tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

"If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory," he told TV interviewer Charlie Rose.

But, sir, that doesn't make it news, it makes a lie, it make it propaganda, it mangles the truth for your own political agenda.

But I wouldn't expect anything else from you, or your administration.

Keep up the good work!