Drudge Spreads The Lie

Lots of times people who really want to disseminate a point of view are very quick to sieze on the apparent gist of an article without realizing it contains the seeds of it's own destruction. Or, as propagandists know, most people scan the headlines and the first few sentences and move on.
Either way the execrable Drudge put this on his site today:



It links to the Kuwait News Agency. Now Kuwait is in bed with the fascists and is very much a supporter of what is being done in Iraq so it's no surprise they'd like to put out good news concerning martial law in Bahgdad. They aren't an independent source. Here's the first paragraph:

"BAGHDAD, March 14 (KUNA) -- The rate of killings of US troops in Iraq has been on the decline, down by 60 percent, since the launch of the new security measures in Baghdad, according to statistics revealed by the Multi-National Force -Iraq Combined Press Information Centre."

Must be a pretty good thing what's going on in Iraq, no? Kicking doors in and rifling through households and arresting all males of fighting age seems to be working, right?
No. Second to last paragraph:

"The statistics excluded US troops killed in other governorates such as Al-Anbar, Diyala, and Salahiddin."

Lipstick on a pig, when you cherry pick your numbers.
Car bombings set a record high in Feb.

h/t to Will