Here come the clowns

You really wonder how they can keep on saying these things with a straight face when every particle of real evidence debunks it:

BAGHDAD - The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday that a seven-month-old security operation has cut violence in Baghdad by half, but he acknowledged that civilians were still dying at too high a rate.

I mean, it's like a skit on Saturday Night Live where the General says things are going just fine while his staff are being butchered in the background and their arms and legs are piling up around him till he can no longer be seen behind the wall of butchered flesh.

No matter how many medals they're wearing on their expansive chests, they're beginning to look like buffoons.