Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is the winner of today's "News that's Not News" category. He alleges that President Bush relied on an "aggressive political propaganda campaign" to initiate the Iraq war, instead of telling the truth. Duh!
While I've got to give kudos to Mr. McClellan for speaking his mind, he's only telling what many of us knew all along. Let's just be frank here. I knew before Bush was Inaugurated that we would be going to war in Iraq, and that was fine. Just be honest, say you're going to kick some Hussein Butt for trying to kill your father, and America would have been fine. Hell, we love to get even...and truth be told, if he had been that honest, it probably would have been one of the most POPULAR wars in history!
Now of course, you can't blame McClellan for not speaking his mind...after all, his job was to make lemonade out of lemons, not tell the President the recipe he should use to make the lemonade in the first place.
There is supposed to to be a press conference tomorrow to clear the air. Now we'll see just exactly how much pressure is exerted on the former talking head by the White House. Will he stick with his guns, or soften his tone.
We'll wait and see.
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