Terrorism Down Worldwide

Newsbusters said the MSM isn't telling the whole story from the recent State Department report on terrorism:

Instead of saying that terrorism has increased markedly in Iraq
(the truth), the media are extrapolating beyond that to claim that, as Reuters
puts it, "U.S. sees sharp rise in global terrorism deaths."
Once you get
past the lede of these Reuters and Associated Press pieces, you'll discover the
small detail that the increase in terrorism was almost entirely due to Iraq.
Nowhere in either piece do you learn the fact that aside from the Middle East
(which does not include Afghanistan according to State), the number of terrorist
attacks worldwide is down from a year ago by over 300 incidents. The number of
deaths from terrorism was only up 14 percent.
In other words, the Bush
administration's idea that making Iraq the "central front in the war on terror"
seems to be working.

Here's the real story:

According to the State report, terrorism in South Asia is down by
10 percent from a year ago. In Europe, it's down 18 percent. In Central and
South America, terrorism-related deaths are down 54 percent.

This is excellent news. Instead of attacking the liberal democratic societies where they can receive the benefit of our lawyers and often too lenient judicial system after they've murdered our citizens, they are headed to the war zone where they are eliminated. This is the real Iraq Distraction.