After Meeting With Generals, Bush Abandons...A Phrase

All weekend and into yesterday, media were wondering just exactly what would be the outcome of rushing commanders to the White House for emergency high level meetings with the President amidst unrelenting chaos in Iraq.

Well, they changed a phrase. And its headline news.

The degree to which the deadly bloodbath in Iraq is seen by the Bush administration as nothing more ore less than a campaign issue is breathtaking. Even now, the most important change and, apparently news, coming out of the White House about the war is literally semantic.

And the media treat this campaign adjustment almost (but not quite) as though it actually were a strategic adjustment. Lead story on CNN this morning. Front page of the New York Times.