White House denies understating Iraq violence (AFP)

US President George W. Bush speaks at a luncheon in Alabama, 28 September 2006. The White House denied deliberately understating the pace of attacks on US troops in Iraq but declined to spell out whether they have been increasing or decreasing.(AFP/File/Jim Watson )AFP – The White House denied willfully understating violence in Iraq, one of a barrage of charges stemming from a new book that reportedly paints top US officials in disarray over the war.