Here's my favorite McLellan statement from his book:

[DFW]

From the Washington Post review of it:


McClellan stops short of saying that Bush purposely lied about his reasons for invading Iraq, writing that he and his subordinates were not "employing out-and-out deception" to make their case for war in 2002.

OK, you were not employing out-and-out deception.

Sooooooo, what kind of deception WAS it?

(curious minds want to know--"in-and-in deception," maybe?)

[phillysuse]

1. In and out

deception.

Where does Jeff Gannon fit into this?

[DFW]

2. "In-house deception?"

[patrice]

3. Yep, "in-and-in deception" as in PRIVATE INTELLIGENCE in a PRIVATE WAR. nt

[malaise]

4. I thought deliberately 'shading the truth' was deception

The president's real motivation for the war, he said, was to transform the Middle East to ensure an enduring peace in the region. But the White House effort to sell the war as necessary due to the stated threat posed by Saddam Hussein was needed because "Bush and his advisers knew that the American people would almost certainly not support a war launched primarily for the ambitions purpose of transforming the Middle East," McClellan wrote.

"Rather than open this Pandora's Box, the administration chose a different path — not employing out-and-out deception, but shading the truth," he wrote of the effort to convince the world that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, an effort he said used "innuendo and implication" and "intentional ignoring of intelligence to the contrary."

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/05/27/mcclellanbook_0527.html

Fuck Scotty! Fuck Bush!!

[lisa58]

5. These sick bastards were trying to sell a product...

...Did they really think it was a product we needed to buy for any other reason than lining their pockets?

[DFW]

6. Indeed--despite my brother's insistance that it was a PNAC push

My personal feeling is that the whole undertaking was one big
business decision. The thought is so utterly revolting that most
people I talk to can't bear to think so. I don't like it, but I
think so.

Cheney left Halliburton with a 200,000 share stock option at the
then-price (about $19), for $1 per option. At one point, those shares
were worth $80 apiece, or $60 a share up for Cheney, for a capital
gain of $12 million. That's not even starting with those who acted
in concert with him. That's like shooting your grandmother after
taking out a $12 million life insurance policy on her.

Except that instead, Cheney shot a lawyer, about 4000 of our people,
and about 100,000 Iraqis. But, hey, he supports the troops, right?