Reuter's reports:

On NBC's "Meet the Press," Rumsfeld said: "We can win this war. We will win this war.... The work in Iraq is difficult. It is tough. It is going to take time. But progress is being made."

No one seemed to really take note, but I was struck by his use of the phrase 'win this war' here (in epistrophe, no less). I thought we already won the war, that major hostilities were over and the we've long since moved on to the relatively simple business of building a democracy in Iraq?

Given that the Bush administration exceeds even Clinton's in the way it manipulates language in order to frame debates, I can't help but wonder what Mr. Rumsfeld has signalled here.