Flak For Bush’s War
PRESIDENT’S EX-SPOKESMAN FIRES AWAY ON IRAQ WAR, HIS FORMER BOSS
FITSNews – May 28, 2008 – We’ll be bringing you an interesting story later this week about a South Carolina connection to all of this, but for now the statements from former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan are worth examining on their own. In his new book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception ,” McClellan reaffirms all the worst possible stereotypes about Bush – namely that he’s not particularly bright, not particularly engaged in running the country and pretty much a puppet for Vice President Dick Cheney.
Oh, and there’s also this little tidbit about the War in Iraq:
… in a chapter titled “Selling the War,” (McClellan) 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.”
Damn. The only way this book could more thoroughly kick George Bush in the balls would be if its cover featured a picture of McClellan actually kicking George Bush in the balls.
Anyway, like we said we’ll have an interesting local angle on this story coming up in the next couple of days, so stay tuned …
Comments
By Monkeydarts on May 28th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Man bites dog sells. Six months from now it’s “Scott who?”; just like it was yesterday.
By KYJurisDoctor on May 28th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Yes, Bush “veered TERRIBLY OFF course” — Scott McClellan’s own words –, and the country is NOW paying the TERRIBLE prize for it. SHAMEFUL.
By nick on May 28th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Ha, insider’s confirmation that we have dirt bags and clowns running the White House. Freakin Republican dirty bags gave us 8 years escalating inflations, out of control deficit and a war nobody wants!
By Lowcountry Boil on May 28th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Had only the white trash of SC stuck with McCain in 2000 instead of falling for push-polling BS…alas.
By DT on May 28th, 2008 at 10:58 am
McClellan at least had the integrity to come forth and admit what most Americans already knew about Bush & his GOP. I’m not surprised at all to hear about this Bush, Cheney , Rove & GOP corruption that has screwed over this nation for the last 7 years. Also…it will come as no surprise that the White Houses only response to the book will be to take cheap shots that accuse McClellan of being disgruntled or disingenuous. Since they have no moral compass or integrity to stand on…and since the record of Republican corruption and treachery against the USA these last 7 years speaks for itself…they really do not have a leg to stand on in their defense against the content in McClellan’s book. If Dana Perino and others loyal only to the Bush Crime Family and the Republican Party had any sense, they would simply keep their mouths shut and quit accusing McClellan of being a disgruntled person. The more you complain about McClellan’s book, the more obvious you make your own sins against the USA.
By what? on May 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Good for McClellan. Its pretty ironic though that the the administration calls his credibility into question now that he’s actually telling the truth. What they should say is, “He lied for us, whose to say he isn’t lying for his publisher.”
By Pile on some more, we'll stand by and watch it burn. on May 28th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
How many ex-Bushies, memos, or reports have to come out showing Bush and his top cronies lied to justify the war before we pull out? They say, “our lies weren’t intentional, they were just negligent.” When is ignorance an appropriate defense for anything? And that’s their best argument — sorry, we didn’t really have justification for the war but we didn’t know we didn’t have it. We could have had the justification but, unfortunately, the facts didn’t line up with how we represented the truth. Good thing we invaded before you found out there was no jusitification. I mean, we’ve “broken the seal,” we can’t just not pee. And if we leave now, the drastically devastating results of our “negligence” will just have worse consequences. I mean, we took a crap on the kitchen floor, so we can’t just leaving it there, we eat in there, and by “we” I mean big oil and by “eat” I mean provide a global framework so that we can charge record gas prices while we retain record profits. Who is going to stop us, Obama?
Coalition forces have already lost over 4000 soldiers. If blood were oil these Bushie b-stards would have probably skipped the war and killed these soldiers themselves. Ah but who cares right, cause David Cook won American Idol and he’s got the nomination for president of dreamy!
Just a little venting.
By Dude on May 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
At least he’s not Jimmy Carter.
By Dude on May 29th, 2008 at 8:23 am
at most he’s not Jimmy Carter, either
By bkmur on May 29th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Lazy minds make plans for global dominance & pray over it. Then they let God & Dick Cheney sort out the details. Your kids, husbands, wifes, moms in uniform? Just an administrative detail. No more CEO models for President (or brain surgery, or bridge building). No more carpetbagger Texas/Connecticut hybrids for President. No more rich boys who come to Christ right after a really bad hangover for President. No more Presidents who kaynt ‘member if they ever did cocaine. Make ‘em all think of Nancy Reagan and pee in a bottle as part of the hiring process. Maybe Human Resources could establish a minimum score on a mandatory I.Q. test for presidential wannabees
And where the hell has Dick Cheney been recently? Working on that fixer upper in Dubai?
By flounder on May 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Almost sounds like lithium boy in a snit, though they’d never publish lithium boy.
By Reader on May 30th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Latest from the newsroom: McTurncoat may back Obama.
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