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The complaint is not that Bush reversed his story--there is no contradiction in being drug-free for seven, 15, and 25 years--but that he reversed his spin, obliging his advisers to "defend the change of strategy."
The evidence for this, he says, was gathered over many years--but what evidence does he provide?