I think the folks who put those reports together need to sit down and carefully review their use of words. Not only was 'Gulag' overdone and provocative, it played into the hands of their opponents who will now hammer them with that word. Hey, if Bush can be hammered for 'crusade' then amnesty can be hammered for 'gulag'.

I'm still rolling my eyes ever since I heard Bush's use of the word 'disassemble', but that's beside the point.

I think by accusing the President of whopperism one similarly plays into the hands of the wordsmiths who lead the President and Ms. Rice through the mine-field of the battle of words that constitutes the far greater part of the current war. You take the attention away from the hard information in the report and contribute to the 'nyah nyah' aspect of things that suffuse the current environment.