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Wednesday, May 28, 2008




Scott McClellan's new memoir is coming out-- here's a reaction from the Washington Post:


Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war."
McClellan includes the charges in a 341-page book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," that delivers a harsh look at the White House and the man he served for close to a decade. He describes Bush as demonstrating a "lack of inquisitiveness," says the White House operated in "permanent campaign" mode, and admits to having been deceived by some in the president's inner circle about the leak of a CIA operative's name.
The book, coming from a man who was a tight-lipped defender of administration aides and policy, is certain to give fuel to critics of the administration, and McClellan has harsh words for many of his past colleagues. He accuses former White House adviser Karl Rove of misleading him about his role in the CIA case. He describes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as being deft at deflecting blame, and he calls Vice President Cheney "the magic man" who steered policy behind the scenes while leaving no fingerprints.


Now one of the point men in the propaganda machine has admitted that the administration he worked for was misleading the public. The public opinion of Bush can't get much worse, yet this memoir may help give other Republicans the nerve to speak up and denounce the Cheney/Bush regime. Let's hope that maybe some more people are prompted to look at McSame's role in cheerleading for this war pushed on us by liars and cheats!

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