Original sentence: Before joining The Weekly Standard, Hayes was a senior writer for National Journal'''s Hotline.Hayes has explained the contradictions of Cheney saying during the first Gulf War that toppling Saddam Hussein's government would trap the US in a quagmire and his enthusiastic support for it today by claiming that "9/11 changed everything
Edited sentence: " It's not completely clear if by "everything" he means that up is now down''' or whether or not 1+1 still equals 2.Before joining The Weekly Standard, Hayes was a senior writer for National Journals Hotline.Hayes has explained away the contradictions of Cheney saying during the first Gulf War that toppling Saddam Hussein's government would trap the US in a quagmire and his enthusiastic support for it today as being due to the fact that "9/11 changed everything