  The State Department has reissued their 2003 issue of urlLink Patterns of Global Terrorism , revising upwards the number of terrorist attacks for the year. Whether through malice or mistake, getting wrong one of the barometers of our success in the War on Terror, and doing it in such a way that makes it look like the Administration is trying to make things look better than they are is not acceptable. This isn't some flub made by the President at a press conference (we are all sadly used to those...the flubs, not the press conferences) or some internal memo. This is one of the premier public documents produced by the government on the subject. With all the other bad news today (a urlLink wave of attacks across Iraq and urlLink two bomb attacks in Turkey ) this may seem minor. But if the Administration can't get the little things right, how can they be trusted to handle the big things? 
