There’s a reason they call it a ‘briefing’

Iraq Slide

The thing about this Defense Department slide that amazes me isn’t that it shows that conditions are deteriorating in Iraq — hello, that’s obvious. No, it’s the total lack of understanding of human cognition it displays. How many words and terms and symbols can we cram into one visual presentation?

No wonder Bush doesn’t get it if this is the kind of briefing slide he sees.

Slide via The New York Times.