Administration - Ignore What You See, We Never Change Policies

"This is a continuation of what we have been doing," Bush press secretary Scott McClellan said from the podium.

"This isn't anything new; there's no big news story here," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld repeated.

"The president has said this from the very beginning," Secretary of State Colin L. Powell noted.

Long before the Iraq war, the Bush administration presented its foreign policy as unwavering on subjects ranging from Middle East involvement to the "One China" policy to arms pacts with Russia. But now, with a highly visible shift on the United Nations, the administration has to contend with more of a paper trail as it tries to argue that nothing has changed.