PAST BUSH CRONIE TURNS ON FORMER ADMINISTRATION

Scott McClellan's Scathing Memoir
Pounds on Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, War, etc.


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Bush misled the US on Iraq with a political propaganda campaign. People have been agreeing and discussing that since the start of the war. SO why now are these thoughts so credible and breaking news? Because it is just on of the many revelations brought to our attention by former White House Press Sec. Scott McClellan in his memoir set out in stores tomorrow.
Aside from Bush's "lack of inquisitiveness" McClellan also emphasizes:

• Karl Rove and Scooter Libby "had at best misled" him over their involvement in the Valerie Plame leak

• Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
  
  • He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
  
  • He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
  
  • The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.

In the chapter "Selling the War," he alleges that the administration repeatedly shaded the truth and that Bush "managed the crisis in a way that almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option."

"Over that summer of 2002," he writes, "top Bush aides had outlined a strategy for carefully orchestrating the coming campaign to aggressively sell the war. . . . In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage."

McClellan, once a staunch defender of the war from the podium, comes to a stark conclusion, writing, "What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."

McClellan resigned from the White House on April 19, 2006, after nearly three years as Bush's press secretary. The departure was part of a shake-up engineered by new Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten that also resulted in Rove surrendering his policy-management duties.

"[He] sounds like a left-wing blogger" said Karl Rove.

It appears Mr. Rove appears to be subtly agreeing to the book's contents and simply wants to scare the public with "LIBERAL!"Modern day McCarthyism at it's finest.





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