"U.S. battlefield casualties in Iraq are increasing dramatically in the face of continued attacks by remnants of Saddam Hussein's military and other forces, with almost 10 American troops a day now being officially declared 'wounded in action,'" the Washington Post's Vernon Lobe writes. With so many troops wounded in action and attacks on soldiers becoming "commonplace," U.S. Central Command only releases the number of wounded when asked -- "making the combat injuries of U.S. troops in Iraq one of the untold stories of the war," Lobe writes.

"Iraq may be spinning out of control, but in the Bush administration, the spin was strictly controlled," writes Evan Thomas.

The British government is setting up a new "Department of Truth" in an effort to end damaging publicity about the role of politically appointed "spin-doctors." The rumored brain behind this strategy, however, is Peter Mandelson, the former Labour Party communications director who is credited with being the first of the new wave of spin-doctors when he worked for the party in the 1980s. "He is the one advising Tony Blair," said a government insider. "The King of Spin is in charge of the death of spin."