Who's telling the truth, Bush, Ashcroft or Rumsfeld?

[mburbank]

"we are winning the war on terror"
-W, State of the Union, 1/28/02

"We are winning the War on Terrorism"
-Ashcroft, to Senate Judiciary Committee Hearin, 3/4/03

"We are winning the War on Terrorism"
-W, San Diego, 8/14/03

"The United States has no yardstick for measuring progress in the war on terrorism"
Rumsfled, 10/22/03

I mean, I guess you could see if we were winning or not without a yardstick. Maybe we have a measuring tape. Or a scoreboard. Or an as yet unspecified metaphor to tell how things are going.