How Many in Mass Graves in Iraq?

400,000, as we have been told many times? 100,000? 50,000?

Er, no: 5,000.

As Kevin Drum says, this is only one among several ... misstatements.

Prime Minister Allawi joins in the game, inflating smoothly from 300,000 or so dead under Saddam to ... 1 million. Sure, why not?