It looks like Paul O’Neill got caught in a lie and is trying desperately to back away from it:
He described the reaction to Suskind’s book as a “red meat frenzy” and said people should read his comments in context, particularly about the Iraq war.
“People are trying to say that I said the president was planning war in Iraq early in the administration. Actually there was a continuation of work that had been going on in the Clinton administration with the notion that there needed to be a regime change in Iraq.”
Advantage: blogosphere. (Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds for the link)
