Moveon.org, the Progressive activist powerhouse, is presently in some hot water with the usual suspects for having the astonishingly poor taste of telling the truth, in the New York Times, no less.

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So is General Petraeus betraying us? Well, consider this: the general testified to Congress yesterday that sectarian violence was down. This was detected by classifying dead Iraqis who met their demise by a bullet to the front of the head as merely victims of crime; dead Iraqis killed by a bullet to the back of the head are the ones who get noted in the ledger for sectarian violence. If you get killed by a car bomb, according to the general, you're also not a victim of sectarian violence. In short, what's changed aren't the facts on the ground; they're merely being measured differently, and the results of these changed metrics have now been read into the Congressional record as evidence that we need at least another Friedman unit of surging. Presumably, this will give the general time to further clarify what is and what is not a sectarian death; who knows, in six months, they'll probably declare that unless you're strangled with a burqa, you're not dead for reasons that concern the general.

Are they calling ketchup a vegetable yet?

More background on the general's astonishing dishonesty is on the MoveOn web site.

(XPosted @ TDG)