"Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,”Bush and his dastardly minions lied and manipulated the country into the needless Iraq War? The press, those who are constitutionally called to protect the public from such criminals cowardly laid down and went along with the bogus 'war'? And Scooter Libby and Karl Rove are traitors who outed a covert CIA agent?
• McClellan charges that 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.
• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
No shit! Only the totally ignorant or those who lack the integrity to quit lying about it, don't already agree on that, Scottie. You're a little late, asshole. But they should reduce your sentence for coming clean. Maybe.
