Tony Snow is back, and the message is clear.

Tony Snow is back.

Q Tony, are we winning the war?....

MR. SNOW: ....You know, April, we're fighting the war, and it's an important thing to understand that the only way to lose the war is to walk away from it, .......

Any measure of progress is unacceptable.

Q Why not set benchmarks with -- political benchmarks with consequences, given that there has been so little, if any, progress politically from the Iraqis?

MR. SNOW: Number one, it gets back to what you're saying. If you try to impose timetables, what you end up doing is you say to enemies, you know, all you have to do is create a little bit of chaos.

In other words, asking for progress reports leads to terrorism, so, just shut up and trust the president.

Also, Regarding the oil law that Tony Snow tried to reference as an accomplishment, the Kurdish minority declared they would block oil law today.