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White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has announced that he is stepping down, and he's written a book about his experiences in the Bush administration. He's claiming that Bush relied on a "propaganda campaign" to sell the Iraq war in the place of honesty and candor, go figure. He has called Bush's operation "insular, secretive and combative." The White House has called his accusations self-serving sour grapes, and reveals that he's been asked to leave earlier than originally planned.
McClellan's book focuses mostly on Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq, a determination he says had been made by early 2002, at least a full year before the invasion, if not earlier. The book goes on to document Bush's "ambitious and idealistic post-9/11 vision of transforming the Middle East through the spread of freedom." But Bush and advisers made a marketing choice to downplay this rationale in favor of focusing entirely on trumped up portrayals of the threat posed by WMD's. In a nutshell McClellan's book "What Happened" offers portraits of Bush, Rove, Rice, Libby all confirming that we went to war in Iraq under false pretenses, and that we were also serially lied to about the outing of Valerie Plame. Interesting enough, but it's about 5 years too late.
Another Bush administration official tries to wash blood off his hands, and make some bucks in the process by writing what's been described as a "come clean" book pointing fingers at everyone except himself and claiming to be an innocent bystander who watched horrible things happening but had no choice other than to go along.
We need all the openness and honesty we can get, but it would have been better to have taken the opportunity when it mattered, before the 2004 election, when it could have potentially have saved thousands of lives. Bush led a political propaganda campaign to sell the war, was not open and forthright, and ignored or simply disregarded contradictory intelligence on the war. He remained in campaign mode by never reflecting, never reconsidering, and never compromising. History seems poised to confirm what most of us Americans already know, that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. The most damning revelation of all was in confirming that Bush wanted to invade Iraq to "create a legacy of greatness" by transforming the Middle East into a land of peace and brotherhood. Over 4,000 dead U.S. soldiers sacrificed for a neo-con wet dream of democratic dominoes across the region. How chilling is that? The president had promised himself that he would accomplish what his father had failed to do by winning a second term in office. Then there's the media who was too easy on the administration on the "selling" of the war and have been called "enablers."
Remember GW, it's not a lie if you believe it. Disastrous policy for a sitting President. Lies on top of lies, and the more the truth comes out, there is still that percentage of brain-washed Americans who will always believe we were taking the moral high ground by invading a sovereign country who didn't pose a threat to a single one of us......

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