O'neill is now backing down on his comments. I'm afraid they've gotten to him - whoever 'they' is. He claimed he was old, rich and they couldn't harm him, but I'm willing to bet someone has threatened him with something.
I always assumed he'd have a heart attack or get hit by a car in the next couple weeks. Looks like that may not have to happen.
"People are trying to make a case that I said the president was planning war in Iraq early in the administration," O'Neill said.
Actually, there was a continuation of work that had been going on in the Clinton administration with the notion that there needed to be regime change in Iraq.
I'm amazed that anyone would think that our government, on a continuing basis across political administrations, doesn't do contingency planning and look at circumstances."