When the truth starts coming out...

Scott McClellan, former Bush White House Press Secretary, has a new book coming out. Apparently, what he has to say about his former boss and his administration's choices isn't all that flattering.

From Yahoo! News:

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that President Bush relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war, it has been reported.

The Bush White House made "a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed" — a time when the nation was on the brink of war, McClellan writes in the book entitled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception."

The way Bush managed the Iraq issue "almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option," the book contends, according to accounts Wednesday in The New York Times and Washington Post.

"In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage," McClellan writes.
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McClellan called the Iraq war a "serious strategic blunder," a surprisingly harsh assessment from the man who was at that time the loyal public voice of the White House.

"The Iraq war was not necessary," he concludes.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict he's not going to get a Christmas card from Bush this year.

At any rate, thank you Scott for shedding some light on the truth, and mostly for not waiting until after the election cycle is over to tell us these things.

I think that's the gutsiest thing he did. Let's just hope people take note of what happened and remember it when they're in the voting booth this fall.