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Like many people, I’m trying to figure out why, after so many months of successfully misleading the U.S. public into believing there was a connection between Iraq and 9/11 (such that 7 of 10 Americans still gullibly think that connection exists), Bush & Co. would suddenly admit “there has been no evidence that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”

Refer to yesterday’s Bush Disavows Hussein-Sept. 11 Link (WaPo) or Bush: No Proof of Saddam Role in 9-11 (AP).

Surely this ongoing 9/11→Saddam Hussein→”Let’s roll” popular opinion redirect has been one of the most successful applications ever of Huxley’s Brave New World hypnopaedic maxim, “62,400 repetitions make one truth.”

And now they’re pulling the plug? Now that’s news.

Billmon, Kos, and others are putting forth their ideas as to why they’re admitting this now.

My idealist side wants to think they’re finally coming ‘round to some honesty. But my skeptical side wins out; I think they’re simply continuing their habit of lying big on the front page and then retracting the lie in small print on an inside page so as not to upset their internal sense of “moral” weight and balance. “See? No lie — all canceled out.” Meanwhile, all most people see and remember is the front-page headline.

But why “spin different” now, precisely? This is interesting to watch.