There is nothing like spinning a story two ways in an attempt to make your supporters as well as your opponents feel that a correct step has been taken on an issue as crucial and controversial as the Iraq War.

For some time well-intentioned progressives had trained their efforts on petition drives and letter writing to seek to convince the neoconservative Republican administration to remove Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in hope that fresh blood would improve conditions in a steadily worsening Iraq War tragedy.

How delighted so many of these forces were when it was announced that Rumsfeld would be stepping down.  Many naively believed that an opportunity for genuine progress might lie ahead with a new secretary installed.  

Others, as exemplified in this column, believed that the only way tangible progress could be achieved was by removing the duo of Cheney and Bush.