McClellan Says Bush Misled US on Iraq

[unhappycamper]

McClellan Says Bush Misled US on Iraq
May 28, 2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

WASHINGTON - In a book due out June 2, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan offers a blistering review of the Bush administration and concludes that his longtime boss misled the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq.

"History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided --- that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder," McClellan wrote in "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong With Washington."

"No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact," he wrote in the preface. "What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."

The White House declined to comment late Tuesday on the book by the longtime Bush aide, whose ties to the president date to his days as Texas governor. It questions Bush's intellectual curiosity, his candor in leading the nation to war and the quality of his advisers, and it points up what McClellan writes is a pattern of self-deception.

"As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq," McClellan wrote. "Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced."


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[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Excellent they printed this in a military magazine!

I for one am going to embrace Scotty's book- Yeah, too little too late,
yeah- rats are jumping ship, but to all those who called me a left winged
moon bat, and are now paying 4 bucks a gallon gas- Well, doncha wish
you had listened to me just a little bit?

[dtotire]

2. How will McCain respond?

He supported the war enthusiastically. Does he have 30 years or so of experience, or 1 year of experience repeated 30 times?