The Horse nails BushCo's Orwellian reality modification in today's issue, quoting Preznit Bush as saying: "The stated policy of my administration towards Saddam Hussein was very clear ... Like the previous administration, we were for regime change."
But this article from the Moonie Times, posted 10/21/2002, contradicts that claim:
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said in television interviews yesterday that a disarmed Saddam could remain in power, and Mr. Powell said that is now President Bush's position."Remember where regime change came from — it came from the previous administration," Mr. Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
They will say whatever they need to at any given moment, parsing their sentences very carefully so that there is no "technical" contradiction. It's classic Orwellian manipulation.