Too Orwellian for Words

In a desperate effort to cook the books and make it appear as if "the surge" is working, the Bush administration is resorting to casualty counts that might have made Stalin or Pol Pot blush:

Intelligence analysts computing aggregate levels of violence against civilians for the NIE puzzled over how the military designated attacks as combat, sectarian or criminal, according to one senior intelligence official in Washington.
"If a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian," the official said. "If it went through the front, it's criminal."

"Depending on which numbers you pick," he said, "you get a different outcome."

These people are evil and they have no shame.