FIRST YOU LAUGH, THEN YOU CRY

I caught this too -- the funniest quote of the week

Here's Colin Powell on "This Week", trying to explain why the State Department terrorism report was so off the mark in saying that terrorism worldwide was down:

It's a numbers error. It's not a political judgment that said, 'Let's see if we can cook the books.' We can't get away with that now. Nobody was out to