Con-damned
Topic: Iraq War, Middle East, Republican Politics, War on Terror|
Details of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book are coming out and by all indications it offers a scathing recollection of his days in the White House.
His revelations about why Bush went to war in Iraq are especially telling:
In Iraq, McClellan added, Bush saw "his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness, "something McClellan said Bush has said he believes is only available to wartime presidents.
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.
On Bush’s leadership skills he writes:
"It strikes me today as an indication of his lack of inquisitiveness and his detrimental resistance to reflection, something his advisers needed to compensate for better than they did."
Bush misled U.S. on Iraq, former aide says in new book
Scott McClellan’s ‘What Happened’ delivers tough criticism of president, advisers
By KEN HERMAN
Cox News Service
Published on: 05/27/08
WASHINGTON — In a book due out Monday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan offers a blistering review of the administration and concludes that his longtime boss misled the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq.
