Drash – It’s unspeakably disappointing to me that it has taken THIS long for those near the “top of the political food chain” to come to grips with the deception and propaganda that marks the Bush Administration… Those whose consciences have not long left them had realized from the OUTSET that the Iraq venture was based on disinformation, lies, and the most blatant forms of propaganda techniques since the time of the nefarious Adolf Hitler. Hey Scott McCellan — where were you when really needed you to stand up for the truth? Why did you comply as a talking head for this corrupt administration? And now you want to give us your mea culpa?
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Bush misled U.S. on Iraq, former aide says in new book
Scott McClellan’s ‘What Happened’ delivers tough criticism of president, advisers
By KEN HERMAN
Cox News Service
WASHINGTON — The White House called former press secretary Scott McClellan “disgruntled” after he wrote a blistering review of the administration and concluded that his longtime boss misled the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq in a book due out Monday.
History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided — that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder,” McClellan wrote in “What Happened,” due out Monday. “No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact.”
“What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary,” he wrote in the preface.
White House aides seemed stunned by the scathing tone of the book, and Bush press secretary Dana Perino issued a statement that was highly critical of their former colleague.
“Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House,” she said. “For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad – this is not the Scott we knew.”
The volume makes McClellan, a Texan picked by the president and paid by the people to help sell the war to the world, the first longtime Bush aide to put such harsh criticism between hard covers. It is an extraordinarily critical book that questions Bush’s intellectual curiosity, his candor in leading the nation to war, his pattern of self-deception and the quality of his advisers.