Hitchens on Iraq's budget surplus

Christopher Hitchens wrote in response to the same impetus that prompted my post yesterday blasting an editorial in The St. Petersburg Times with an "upside-down Iraqi headline."

One day I will publish my entire collection of upside-down Iraq headlines, where the true purport of the story is the inverse of the intended one. (Top billing thus far would go to the greatest downer of them all: the tale of Iraq's unemployed gravediggers, their always-insecure standard of living newly imperiled by the falling murder rate. You don't believe me? Wait for the forthcoming anthology.) While you wait, you might consider last week's astonishing report about the Iraqi budget surplus and the way in which the report was reported.

Read it all the way through to the bottom at Slate.