The spin is on.

You have the Iraq "debate" in Congress with DoD supplying a 74 page talking points booklet, and now you have the military announcing troop cuts which aren't really troop cuts to get a well timed headline.

WASHINGTON - The top U.S. commander in Iraq predicted on Thursday that the size of the U.S. fighting force will shrink this year, although he said he had not made new recommendations to his Pentagon bosses on the size and timing of any cuts.

(Also, notice the carefully worded, technically correct support, that Rumsfeld gave to Santorum's bogus WMD claims in the Senate.)

I'll say it again. If this administration had fought the war as hard as they've fought the politics of the war, Iraq would be a paradise.