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Apparently things are getting better in Iraq. President Bush had a meeting, um, photo-op on Saturday to discuss Iraq “strategery” with Monty Meigs—the guy in charge of the Pentagon’s efforts to counter the threat posed by improvised explosive devises—and announced that last year’s IEDs were only half as deadly as they were in the past.

Which, of course, means that the hundreds who died from roadside bombs in 2005 are only half as dead.