Who are you going to believe

Joe Lieberman & John McCain

"It's finally getting better, unlike the last time we said it was finally getting better, or the time before that, and the one before that, well don't even bring that one up."

Or the Red Cross?

The international Red Cross released a report that found the situation for civilians in Iraq is "ever-worsening," even though security in some places has improved as a result of stepped-up efforts by U.S.-led multinational forces...

Pierre Kraehenbuehl, director of operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC, said that thousands of bodies lay unclaimed in mortuaries, with family members either unaware that they are there or too afraid to go to recover them.

Medical professionals also have been fleeing the country after cases where their colleagues were killed or abducted, the neutral agency said.

"Whatever operation that is today under way, and that may be taken tomorrow and in the weeks after, to improve the security of civilians on the ground may have an effect in the medium term," Kraehenbuehl said.

"We're certainly not seeing an immediate effect in terms of stabilization for civilians currently. That is not our reading," he said.

Because, after all, the Red Cross has only been consistently right about Iraq and the effects of American policy on its detainees.

And McCain and Lieberman have been consistently wrong.

So naturally...