I actually heard Ari say this & I interpreted it to mean that any way that Saddam got dead (including even some ''wet work'') would be fine & dandy w/ the folks at the WH.
Of course the WH had a war plan. Given the problems w/ Saddam taking pot shots at planes in the No Fly zone, even the Clinton WH would have had war plans. But I also think that Bush would have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid an invasion--as evidenced by the attempted missle hit on Saddam just before the invasion. I personally think that the WH would have used a contract hit or any other means of eliminating SH short of an invasion if they thought it had a reasonable chance of success...and MO is that is what Ari was alluding to w/ his statement about regime change in any form.
I seem to remember the media wetting themselves when Ari said something about the cost of one bullet ....
That bozo ex-treasury secretary's new book bombshells are actually press conference material from three years ago. How shocking is that? I hope he credits Ari Fleisher with his material.